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General medicine waiting times at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 640 people were on the General medicine at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (75%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · General medicine across England

People waiting
640
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
75.2%
England: 71.4%
Over 52 weeks
2
Median wait
10 wks
Published median for this list

2 people (0.3%, roughly 1 in 333) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is broadly in line with the England picture for this service.

Why this page exists

This page combines facts that neither the organisation page nor the England specialty page shows on its own: the current published figure for this one service at this one organisation; how that figure has moved over the months we hold; the England figure for the same service in the same month; other NHS trusts within 25 miles reporting the same service; the published median wait and 52-week count for this list; the other services this organisation reports. This service accounts for 1.9% of everyone waiting at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 20.6 percentage points (55% to 75%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 3.8 points over 3 months (79.0% in March 2026); up 11.2 points over 6 months (64.0% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +20.6 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 202554.6%
August 202558.2%
September 202567.9%
October 202565.1%
November 202563%
December 202564%
January 202663.9%
February 202667.1%
March 202679%
April 202675.8%
May 202671.7%
June 202675.2%

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 General medicine figures at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202576654.6%10
August 202570358.2%6
September 202572867.9%3
October 202571965.1%5
November 202579163.0%3
December 202577664.0%6
January 202677063.9%3
February 202673367.1%4
March 202654479.0%5
April 202656575.8%1
May 202670271.7%0
June 202664075.2%2

Other NHS trusts offering general medicine within 25 miles

Published figures only. These are whole-list figures for each organisation in one month; a different organisation's published position does not mean an individual referral would move faster there.

Alternative trusts for General medicine
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust23.6 mi81154%-21.3 pp
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust24.4 mi79339%-36.2 pp

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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