How long is the wait for a flexible sigmoidoscopy (bowel camera test) at St Edmund's Hospital?
The NHS does not publish flexible sigmoidoscopy waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust, which runs St Edmund's Hospital, and it is the current flexible sigmoidoscopy queue that applies to you here — the list as it stands this month, not a prediction.
Updated June 2026 · (the NHS diagnostics waiting-list return)
Half of the people waiting for a flexible sigmoidoscopy (bowel camera test) at Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust have waited longer than 10 weeks. 68% have been waiting more than six weeks, against an NHS standard that fewer than 1% should.
Faster hospitals within 100 miles of St Edmund's Hospital
A shorter flexible sigmoidoscopy queue, straight-line from this hospital's own location — so this list is specific to St Edmund's Hospital.
- Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · North Northamptonshire2w · 12 mi · 8w faster
- Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Milton Keynes1w · 16 mi · 9w faster
- University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust · Coventry2w · 27 mi · 8w faster
- Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Luton5w · 29 mi · 5w faster
- University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust · Leicester3w · 29 mi · 7w faster
- South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust · Warwick2w · 30 mi · 8w faster
Other hospitals run by Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust
Same trust, so the queue above applies at these too — your flexible sigmoidoscopy could be at any of them.
- Northampton General Hospital1 mi
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