How long is the wait for a flexible sigmoidoscopy (bowel camera test) at St Lukes Hospital?
The NHS does not publish flexible sigmoidoscopy waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, which runs St Lukes 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 University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust have waited longer than 3 weeks. 21% have been waiting more than six weeks, against an NHS standard that fewer than 1% should.
Faster hospitals within 100 miles of St Lukes Hospital
A shorter flexible sigmoidoscopy queue, straight-line from this hospital's own location — so this list is specific to St Lukes Hospital.
- Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · North Northamptonshire2w · 10 mi · 1w faster
- University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust · Coventry2w · 22 mi · 1w faster
- South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust · Warwick2w · 31 mi · 1w faster
- Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Milton Keynes1w · 33 mi · 2w faster
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Cambridge2w · 50 mi · 1w faster
- United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust · Lincoln2w · 54 mi · 1w faster
Other hospitals run by University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
Same trust, so the queue above applies at these too — your flexible sigmoidoscopy could be at any of them.
- Leicester General Hospital12 mi
- Leicester Royal Infirmary13 mi
- Glenfield Hospital16 mi
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