NHS diagnostic waits · South Norfolk · flexible sigmoidoscopy (bowel camera test)

How long is the wait for a flexible sigmoidoscopy (bowel camera test) at Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital?

The NHS does not publish flexible sigmoidoscopy waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital, and it is the current flexible sigmoidoscopy 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 flexible sigmoidoscopy (bowel camera test) at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have waited longer than 4 weeks. 37% have been waiting more than six weeks, against an NHS standard that fewer than 1% should.

Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital

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

  • James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Great Yarmouth3w · 21 mi · 1w faster
  • The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust · King's Lynn and West Norfolk2w · 34 mi · 2w faster
  • East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust · Colchester3w · 51 mi · 1w faster
  • Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Cambridge2w · 55 mi · 2w faster
  • Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · North Northamptonshire2w · 84 mi · 2w faster
  • United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust · Lincoln2w · 84 mi · 2w faster

Other hospitals run by Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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

  • Cromer Hospital21 mi

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