NHS diagnostic waits · Rochdale · flexible sigmoidoscopy (bowel camera test)
Flexible sigmoidoscopy (bowel camera test) waiting time at Rochdale Infirmary
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NHS DM01 data, July 2026
Endoscopy at Rochdale Infirmary
flexible sigmoidoscopy (bowel camera test) is carried out by the Endoscopy department at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust. To be seen you usually need a referral: most people are referred by their GP, and some by a hospital specialist. Once referred, the appointment comes by letter, text or the NHS App.
What a flexible sigmoidoscopy (bowel camera test) involves, on the NHS website →Your options from here
1Free on the NHS
Stay on the NHS for your scan
Wait the NHS scan queue. 4 wks typical wait here.
2Free on the NHS
Switch to a faster NHS hospital for your scan
When your GP refers you for your flexible sigmoidoscopy, Right to Choose lets you ask to go to a faster NHS hospital.
3Part paid
Private scan, keep your NHS place
Pay for the scan privately, then rejoin the NHS for treatment.
4Self funded or insured
Go fully private
The scan and any follow-up, all private.
More about Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
How deep the queue is now
Share of the current flexible sigmoidoscopy queue at this trust by whether they have passed six weeks, July 2026. The NHS standard is that fewer than 1% wait over six weeks.
NHS hospitals near Rochdale
Rochdale Infirmary (current)
0 mi
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust · Tameside
10 mi
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust · Manchester
11 mi
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust · Bolton
12 mi
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust · Kirklees
14 mi
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust · Blackburn with Darwen
15 mi
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust · Stockport
17 mi
Median flexible sigmoidoscopy wait so far in the current queue, July 2026, straight-line from this hospital. Switching does not guarantee a shorter wait.
How we know this
NHS DM01 diagnostics data, July 2026.
The whole trust (Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust), a current-queue snapshot, not a prediction.
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