NHS diagnostic waits · Blackpool · flexible sigmoidoscopy (bowel camera test)

How long is the wait for a flexible sigmoidoscopy (bowel camera test) at Fleetwood Hospital?

The NHS does not publish flexible sigmoidoscopy waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Fleetwood Hospital, and it is the current flexible sigmoidoscopy queue that applies to you here — the list as it stands this month, not a prediction.

3weeks

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

Half of the people waiting for a flexible sigmoidoscopy (bowel camera test) at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have waited longer than 3 weeks. 20% have been waiting more than six weeks, against an NHS standard that fewer than 1% should.

Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Fleetwood Hospital

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

  • Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Preston2w · 15 mi · 1w faster
  • East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust · Blackburn with Darwen2w · 26 mi · 1w faster
  • University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust · Westmorland and Furness2w · 29 mi · 1w faster
  • Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Wigan2w · 30 mi · 1w faster
  • Bolton NHS Foundation Trust · Bolton2w · 35 mi · 1w faster
  • Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust · Manchester2w · 45 mi · 1w faster

Other hospitals run by Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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

  • Blackpool Victoria Hospital7 mi

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