Waiting times by location
NHS waiting times in East of England
14 NHS trusts in the East of England NHS region reported referral-to-treatment figures for June 2026.
- NHS trusts with data
- 14
- People waiting (combined)
- 776,817
- Sum of published trust totals
- Best-performing trust
- 80.3%
- share under 18 weeks
- Lowest
- 30.9%
- share under 18 weeks
Trusts compared
Trusts whose registered region is this NHS region, listed alphabetically. Regions are NHS England administrative areas, so a trust near a boundary may serve people across it. All-services figures hide large differences between individual services, so open a trust to see service-level figures.
| Trust | Waiting | Under 18 weeks | Over 52 weeks | Tests over 6 wks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 82,592 | 59% | 731 | 29.0% |
| Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 59,372 | 65% | 922 | 27.5% |
| Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust | 84 | 31% | 7 | — |
| East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust | 53,730 | 65% | 540 | 43.7% |
| East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust | 89,788 | 61% | 63 | 11.1% |
| James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 31,349 | 60% | 1,089 | 34.5% |
| Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust | 165,626 | 50% | 12,487 | 42.2% |
| Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 70,643 | 62% | 1,888 | 24.2% |
| North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust | 76,043 | 60% | 330 | 40.3% |
| Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | 5,670 | 80% | 32 | 56.8% |
| The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust | 38,558 | 69% | 433 | 34.9% |
| The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust | 25,086 | 63% | 373 | 37.3% |
| West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | 44,946 | 70% | 350 | 24.8% |
| West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust | 33,330 | 66% | 564 | 15.5% |
A further 58 NHS-funded independent-sector and other providers in this area are not listed because their case mix makes direct comparison misleading.
Services where local trusts differ most
Gap in the share waiting under 18 weeks between the highest and lowest trust here, for services with at least 200 people waiting.
Dermatology · 12 trusts · England 69.0%
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust: 91.5% — Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust: 38.8% (gap 52.7 pp)
Neurology · 12 trusts · England 61.7%
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust: 94.3% — James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 45.2% (gap 49.1 pp)
General medicine · 5 trusts · England 71.4%
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 87.9% — Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 39.0% (gap 49 pp)
Oral surgery · 11 trusts · England 55.0%
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust: 77.8% — Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust: 34.7% (gap 43.1 pp)
Cardiology · 13 trusts · England 68.2%
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust: 94.0% — James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 51.1% (gap 42.8 pp)
Rheumatology · 12 trusts · England 70.8%
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust: 90.6% — Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust: 47.8% (gap 42.8 pp)
Respiratory medicine · 13 trusts · England 74.8%
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 96.8% — The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust: 55.5% (gap 41.2 pp)
Orthopaedics · 12 trusts · England 60.6%
James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 70.0% — Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust: 30.9% (gap 39.2 pp)
Distance is not travel time
Distances are straight-line between registered addresses and city centres. Trusts often run several hospital sites, so the site you would attend may be closer or further.
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.
Related guides on this site
- NHS patient choice explained
Background on the legal basis of NHS patient choice.
- How to switch hospitals for faster NHS treatment
Reference article on how hospital switching works within the NHS.
- Work out how long you've waited
Explains how the 18-week measure is counted and what a published percentage represents.
- Your rights while you wait
Reference article on what the 18-week standard is and is not.