NHS diagnostic waits · Exeter · colonoscopy (bowel camera test)

How long is the wait for a colonoscopy (bowel camera test) at Heavitree Hospital?

The NHS does not publish colonoscopy waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Heavitree Hospital, and it is the current colonoscopy queue that applies to you here — the list as it stands this month, not a prediction.

4weeks

Updated June 2026 · (the NHS diagnostics waiting-list return)

Half of the people waiting for a colonoscopy (bowel camera test) at Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust have waited longer than 4 weeks. 36% have been waiting more than six weeks, against an NHS standard that fewer than 1% should.

Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Heavitree Hospital

A shorter colonoscopy queue, straight-line from this hospital's own location — so this list is specific to Heavitree Hospital.

  • Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust · Torbay3w · 17 mi · 1w faster
  • University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust · Plymouth2w · 34 mi · 2w faster
  • University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust · Bristol, City of3w · 65 mi · 1w faster
  • University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust · Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole3w · 67 mi · 1w faster
  • Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust · Bath and North East Somerset3w · 67 mi · 1w faster
  • North Bristol NHS Trust · Bristol, City of2w · 67 mi · 2w faster

Other hospitals run by Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Same trust, so the queue above applies at these too — your colonoscopy could be at any of them.

  • Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital1 mi
  • Exmouth Hospital9 mi
  • Victoria Hospital12 mi
  • Tiverton and District Hospital13 mi
  • Honiton Hospital15 mi
  • Axminster Hospital23 mi
  • North Devon District Hospital35 mi

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