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Respiratory medicine waiting times at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 638 people were on the Respiratory medicine at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (74%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
638
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
73.8%
England: 74.8%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
11 wks
Published median for this list

No one on this list had been waiting more than 52 weeks in June 2026.

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 4.3 percentage points (70% to 74%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 13.1 points over 3 months (86.9% in March 2026); down 13 points over 6 months (86.8% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +4.3 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 202569.5%
August 202576.1%
September 202585.7%
October 202590.4%
November 202584.9%
December 202586.8%
January 202683.7%
February 202684.3%
March 202686.9%
April 202684.5%
May 202681.9%
June 202673.8%

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 Respiratory medicine figures at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202547969.5%16
August 202539376.1%8
September 202538585.7%2
October 202547890.4%2
November 202544584.9%2
December 202546286.8%1
January 202660083.7%2
February 202662584.3%1
March 202648086.9%1
April 202653084.5%1
May 202670881.9%0
June 202663873.8%0

Other NHS trusts offering respiratory 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 Respiratory medicine
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust23.6 mi1,52880%+6.2 pp
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust24.4 mi64797%+22.9 pp
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust24.6 mi2,93896%+21.7 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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