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Gastroenterology waiting times at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of August 2026, 2,689 people were on the Gastroenterology at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (76%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust · NHS trust · Gastroenterology across England

People waiting
2,689
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
75.9%
England: 69.7%
Over 52 weeks
2
Median wait
11 wks
Published median for this list

2 people (0.1%, roughly 1 in 1000) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 6.2 percentage points better than the England figure 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 4.5% of everyone waiting at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

Gastroenterology, NHS England Referral to Treatment figures, April 2024 to August 2026.

18-week performance improved

Published 18-week performance for Gastroenterology at this organisation has improved over the past 12 months: 75.9% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 64.5% at the end of August 2025.

Share of people on the waiting list who had been waiting under 18 weeks, at the end of each month. Scale runs from 0% to 100%.
Latest · August 2026
75.9%
3 months earlier · May 2026
80.1% then · change to latest -4.2 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
74.4% then · change to latest +1.5 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
64.5% then · change to latest +11.4 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
53.2% then · change to latest +22.7 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202675.9%2,689
July 202677.4%2,670
June 202677.7%2,549
May 202680.1%2,559
April 202680%2,554
March 202674.6%2,562
February 202674.4%2,884
January 202668.9%3,049
December 202568.9%3,175
November 202565.6%3,181
October 202564.7%3,343
September 202564.7%3,496
August 202564.5%3,710
July 202565.5%3,728
June 202565.1%3,609
May 202566.5%3,509
April 202568.6%3,587
March 202569.5%3,593
February 202570.2%3,387
January 202567.8%3,318
December 202467.9%3,226
November 202467.7%3,420
October 202471%3,349
September 202470.2%3,465
August 202468.1%3,722
July 202465.1%3,963
June 202463.3%4,138
May 202457.7%4,407
April 202453.2%4,545
How we calculate change
  • Each month's figure is the number of people waiting under 18 weeks divided by everyone on the waiting list, from NHS England's published monthly files.
  • Changes compare the latest month with exactly 3, 6 and 12 months earlier, only where both months are published and the list has at least 50 people.
  • The 12-month label is "improved" or "deteriorated" only if the share moved by 3 percentage points or more; smaller moves are called "broadly stable".
  • Where NHS England reissued a month's file, we use the revised file. Months we do not have are left as gaps and never estimated.
  • Earlier months come from our archive of NHS England's published files and are checked against our current figures wherever both exist.

What these figures cannot tell you

  • These are whole-list figures for one specialty at one organisation. They describe the published waiting list, not how long any one person will wait.
  • This specialty covers many conditions and treatments. These figures are not specific to any one operation or condition.
  • Figures are published for the whole organisation, which may run several hospital sites. They do not show the position at any single site.
  • Patients are prioritised by clinical need, so people on the same list can wait very different times.
  • A higher share within 18 weeks is not a measure of the quality of care.

Other NHS trusts offering gastroenterology 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 Gastroenterology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust20.6 mi6,67267%-8.7 pp
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust21.2 mi4,26384%+8.4 pp
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust21.6 mi2,25564%-12 pp
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust22.9 mi1,81550%-25.5 pp
Wye Valley NHS Trust24.1 mi1,58460%-16.1 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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