Gastroenterology waiting times by hospital in England (June 2026)

week England average

weeks between the fastest and slowest provider

361k

people waiting across 170 providers

That spread is the whole point. Someone waiting at the slowest provider could, on these figures, be seen about 23 weeks sooner elsewhere — if they know to ask.

#	Provider	Median	Within 18wk	Waiting
1	The Living Care Group Leeds	1	100%	609
2	Endocare Diagnostics Ltd Manchester	1	100%	56
3	Practice Plus Group Hospital - Ilford Ilford	2	74%	129
4	Practice Plus Group Hospital - Southampton Southampton	2	100%	277
5	Practice Plus Group Hospital - Shepton Mallet Shepton Mallet	2	99%	149
6	Practice Plus Group Hospital - Plymouth Plymouth	2	95%	150
7	Practice Plus Group Surgical Centre - Gillingham Gillingham	2	100%	216
8	Practice Plus Group Surgical Centre - Devizes Devizes	3	99%	174
9	Practice Plus Group Surgical Centre - St Marys Portsmouth Portsmouth	3	100%	531
10	Practice Plus Group Hospital - Emersons Green Bristol	3	100%	582
11	Pinehill Hospital Hitchin	3	96%	54
12	South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust Sunderland	4	96%	1,123
13	Community Health and Eyecare Limited Preston	4	97%	871
14	Sulis Hospital Bath (Foxcote Avenue) Bath	4	96%	77
15	North Bristol NHS Trust Bristol	4	88%	430
16	Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust Gateshead	4	94%	807
17	Clementine Churchill Hospital Harrow	4	100%	242
18	Glendon Wood Hospital Kettering	4	85%	198
19	Winfield Hospital Gloucester	4	95%	166
20	London Independent Hospital London	5	97%	142
21	Cobalt Hospital Newcastle upon Tyne	5	89%	392
22	Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Cambridge	5	86%	1,594
23	Medefer London	5	88%	184
24	Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust Truro	5	90%	2,374
25	South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Middlesbrough	5	94%	1,705
26	Tyneside Surgical Services Ltd Gateshead	5	91%	341
27	Droitwich Spa Hospital Droitwich	5	89%	93
28	Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Southampton	6	94%	127
29	Blakelands Hospital Milton Keynes	6	93%	244
30	The Grange Medical Centre Hq Pontefract	6	100%	231
31	Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust Ashton-Under-Lyne	6	93%	1,099
32	Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust London	6	94%	1,001
33	Meriden Hospital Coventry	6	87%	168
34	Tees Valley Hospital Middlesbrough	6	82%	292
35	Woodthorpe Hospital Nottingham	6	89%	165
36	Ridgeway Hospital Swindon	6	88%	59
37	Phoenix Health Solutions Limited Hq Pontefract	7	92%	371
38	The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Newcastle upon Tyne	7	90%	952
39	East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust Blackburn	7	90%	2,269
40	Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust Harrogate	7	89%	812
41	Hendon Hospital London	7	79%	100
42	Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Exeter	7	86%	2,429
43	Whittington Health NHS Trust London	7	84%	1,185
44	Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Barnsley	7	93%	1,087
45	East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust St. Leonards-on-Sea	7	79%	2,445
46	Springfield Hospital Chelmsford	8	88%	242
47	University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust London	8	83%	3,762
48	Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust North Shields	8	97%	1,522
49	Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Chester	8	88%	762
50	Beacon Park Hospital Stafford	8	82%	127
51	Kings Oak Hospital Enfield	8	91%	120
52	Benenden Hospital Cranbrook	8	73%	102
53	Fitzwilliam Hospital Peterborough	8	73%	183
54	Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust London	8	90%	2,980
55	Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Milton Keynes	8	94%	1,376
56	The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust London	8	90%	61
57	Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Cheltenham	8	88%	4,571
58	Beacon Medical Services Group Limited Manchester	9	81%	1,341
59	Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Leeds	9	75%	2,864
60	Bolton NHS Foundation Trust Bolton	9	78%	1,535
61	The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust Shrewsbury	9	88%	1,894
62	University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust Kendal	9	78%	2,387
63	Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust Romford	9	78%	4,098
64	Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust Wakefield	9	72%	3,625
65	Shirley Oaks Hospital Croydon	9	75%	184
66	Rivers Hospital Sawbridgeworth	9	80%	600
67	University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust Coventry	9	78%	1,463
68	West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Watford	9	88%	3,319
69	Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust Bath	9	86%	2,243
70	Woodlands Hospital Darlington	9	78%	126
71	Boston West Hospital Boston	9	75%	126
72	Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Prescot	9	78%	6,926
73	Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust Camberley	9	71%	1,821
74	Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust Walsall	9	93%	956
75	Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Kettering	9	64%	791
76	Ashtead Hospital Ashtead	9	79%	103
77	St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust London	9	73%	2,546
78	Woodland Hospital Kettering	9	72%	176
79	Cavell Hospital Enfield	9	75%	356
80	Park Hospital Nottingham	9	83%	118
81	Spire Liverpool Hospital Liverpool	9	95%	63
82	Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust London	10	80%	3,056
83	Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust Reading	10	82%	3,819
84	The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Uxbridge	10	70%	1,005
85	University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust Derby	10	69%	4,105
86	Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust Worcester	10	78%	2,548
87	Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust Salisbury	10	76%	1,517
88	Epsomedical Group Cobham	10	72%	282
89	North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust Warrington	10	78%	2,878
90	University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust Poole	10	83%	5,070
91	North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust Hartlepool	10	79%	1,218
92	Airedale NHS Foundation Trust Keighley	10	75%	764
93	Rowley Hall Hospital Stafford	10	67%	108
94	University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust Southampton	10	78%	1,318
95	Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Bradford	10	73%	1,312
96	Fairfield Independent Hospital St. Helens	10	82%	132
97	Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust London	10	84%	1,789
98	Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust Huddersfield	10	72%	2,595
99	Isle of Wight NHS Trust Newport	10	73%	862
100	King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust London	10	74%	2,633
101	Renacres Hospital Ormskirk	10	60%	267
102	Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust Manchester	10	75%	7,658
103	North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust Peterborough	10	68%	5,453
104	Somerset NHS Foundation Trust Taunton	10	72%	2,031
105	University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust Plymouth	11	69%	1,339
106	Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Dorchester	11	75%	968
107	West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust Bury St. Edmunds	11	69%	879
108	George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust Nuneaton	11	74%	1,168
109	Blackheath Hospital London	11	71%	189
110	Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Luton	11	67%	3,346
111	University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust Bristol	11	65%	977
112	Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Norwich	11	67%	3,285
113	The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust Dudley	11	65%	2,259
114	Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust Portsmouth	11	70%	4,138
115	Croydon Health Services NHS Trust Thornton Heath	11	81%	2,582
116	Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Chesterfield	11	66%	1,642
117	Saxon Clinic Milton Keynes	11	63%	60
118	East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust Colchester	11	67%	3,731
119	Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust Redhill	11	70%	4,340
120	South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust Warwick	11	73%	1,760
121	Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust London	11	69%	8,666
122	York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust York	11	65%	1,860
123	Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Oxford	12	67%	3,956
124	Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Sutton-in-Ashfield	12	66%	2,930
125	Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Doncaster	12	69%	3,530
126	The Yorkshire Clinic Bingley	12	67%	1,288
127	Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust Carshalton	12	62%	3,334
128	Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust Maidstone	12	67%	3,040
129	The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust Rotherham	12	72%	1,880
130	Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Basingstoke	12	64%	4,118
131	University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust Birmingham	12	66%	6,652
132	Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Wirral	13	63%	3,164
133	Stockport NHS Foundation Trust Stockport	13	63%	3,014
134	Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust Dartford	13	66%	2,328
135	Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust London	13	65%	6,272
136	Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Amersham	13	69%	3,651
137	Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust Northampton	13	69%	2,966
138	The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust Wolverhampton	13	64%	3,887
139	The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust King's Lynn	13	65%	1,314
140	University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust Stoke-on-Trent	13	66%	5,452
141	North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust Carlisle	13	67%	1,546
142	Dorking Healthcare Limited (Dhc) Redhill	14	66%	326
143	Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Liverpool	14	63%	6,965
144	London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust Harrow	14	66%	6,766
145	Medway NHS Foundation Trust Gillingham	14	62%	2,670
146	County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust Darlington	14	62%	3,391
147	Wye Valley NHS Trust Hereford	14	60%	1,274
148	Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust Nottingham	14	64%	4,697
149	East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust Canterbury	14	62%	5,235
150	Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust Kingston upon Thames	14	60%	2,936
151	The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust Harlow	14	62%	2,884
152	East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust Stevenage	14	57%	2,077
153	Barts Health NHS Trust London	14	62%	8,153
154	United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Lincoln	15	61%	5,181
155	Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Chertsey	15	63%	1,657
156	Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Blackpool	15	58%	3,692
157	University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust Leicester	15	59%	4,713
158	Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust Guildford	15	57%	1,333
159	Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Swindon	15	56%	3,666
160	James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Great Yarmouth	16	55%	1,570
161	Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust Salford	16	54%	13,650
162	University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust Worthing	16	55%	4,935
163	Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Wigan	16	54%	4,418
164	Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust Westcliff-on-Sea	17	53%	9,527
165	Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Hull	17	52%	3,180
166	East Cheshire NHS Trust Macclesfield	18	50%	1,903
167	Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust Smethwick	18	50%	2,170
168	Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Preston	20	46%	1,869
169	Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Crewe	22	42%	1,611
170	Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust Grimsby	24	41%	4,119

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