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West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of June 2026, 33,330 people were on the West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust all-services waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (66%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · East of England · ODS code RGR

People waiting (all services)
33,330
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
65.6%
England: 65.8%
Over 52 weeks
564
Services reported
15
with people currently waiting

564 people (1.7%, roughly 1 in 59) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

Figures are for the whole organisation (trust level), not for an individual hospital site or clinic. The all-services total is the published organisation total, not a sum of the service rows.

Waiting times by service

Each row is one consultant-led service at this organisation, compared with the England figure for the same service in the same month.

Services at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Orthopaedics4,43852%60.6%85-0.7 pp
Gynaecology3,14353%61.0%166-5.5 pp
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)3,00870%59.0%20+8 pp
Dermatology2,62288%69.0%5+13 pp
Ophthalmology2,37073%73.8%3+11 pp
General surgery2,21254%63.0%59+2.5 pp
Urology2,12164%65.0%5-10.9 pp
Cardiology1,20680%68.2%5-1.9 pp
Gastroenterology87969%69.3%9+2.3 pp
Neurology87465%61.7%4+1.8 pp
Plastic surgery81354%59.3%22+11 pp
Rheumatology79991%70.8%0-0.3 pp
General medicine64075%71.4%2+11.1 pp
Respiratory medicine63874%74.8%0-13 pp
Elderly medicine15100%83.1%00 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people waiting at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust waiting under 18 weeks improved by 9.3 percentage points (56% to 66%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (66.0% in March 2026); up 2.7 points over 6 months (62.9% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +9.3 points

Percentage of people seen within 18 weeks, over the last 12 published months.

View these figures as a table
Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202556.3%
August 202558.4%
September 202562.1%
October 202561.9%
November 202562.1%
December 202562.9%
January 202662.6%
February 202662.9%
March 202666%
April 202665.3%
May 202665.4%
June 202665.6%

Month-to-month movements of less than two percentage points are treated as normal variation rather than a real change in direction.

Month-by-month figures
Monthly all-services figures for West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202535,22056.3%1,670
August 202533,67158.4%1,430
September 202532,62562.1%1,086
October 202533,19761.9%921
November 202532,93162.1%776
December 202532,54262.9%761
January 202631,92562.6%691
February 202631,09462.9%609
March 202629,13066.0%414
April 202631,00365.3%422
May 202633,14065.4%472
June 202633,33065.6%564

Diagnostic tests

Tests are measured against a separate six-week standard. Figures for June 2026.

Nearby NHS trusts

Trusts within 25 miles that report waiting figures. Distances are between registered addresses, not travel time.

Contact details we hold for this organisation

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What these figures cannot tell you

  • Where you are in a queue, or when you will be seen or treated.
  • How urgent your own referral is. These are aggregate waiting-list figures and do not show the clinical priority of an individual patient.
  • Anything about a specific consultant, clinic or site within a trust.
  • What will happen next month: these are end-of-month snapshots of a past period.

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