NHS diagnostic waits · Southend-on-Sea · sleep study

How long is the wait for a sleep study at Basildon Hospital?

The NHS does not publish sleep study waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Basildon Hospital, and it is the current sleep study queue that applies to you here — the list as it stands this month, not a prediction.

6weeks

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

Half of the people waiting for a sleep study at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust have waited longer than 6 weeks. 47% have been waiting more than six weeks, against an NHS standard that fewer than 1% should.

Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Basildon Hospital

A shorter sleep study queue, straight-line from this hospital's own location — so this list is specific to Basildon Hospital.

  • Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust · Havering2w · 12 mi · 4w faster
  • Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust · Maidstone3w · 20 mi · 3w faster
  • Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust · Lewisham4w · 21 mi · 2w faster
  • Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust · Hackney1w · 21 mi · 5w faster
  • King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Lambeth2w · 24 mi · 4w faster
  • Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust · Lambeth4w · 25 mi · 2w faster

Other hospitals run by Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

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

  • Orsett Hospital5 mi
  • Southend Hospital10 mi
  • Mid Essex Hospital15 mi
  • St Michael's Hospital23 mi

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