NHS diagnostic waits · West Northamptonshire · sleep study
Sleep study waiting time at Northampton General Hospital
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NHS DM01 data, July 2026
Sleep and respiratory medicine at Northampton General Hospital
sleep study is carried out by the Sleep and respiratory medicine department at Northampton General Hospital NHS 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 sleep study 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. 3 wks typical wait here.
2Free on the NHS
Switch to a faster NHS hospital for your scan
When your GP refers you for your sleep study, 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 Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust
How deep the queue is now
Share of the current sleep study 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 West Northamptonshire
Northampton General Hospital (current)
0 mi
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · North Northamptonshire
13 mi
North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust · Peterborough
35 mi
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust · Stevenage
36 mi
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust · Buckinghamshire
41 mi
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust · Birmingham
47 mi
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust · Sandwell
48 mi
Median sleep study 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 (Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust), a current-queue snapshot, not a prediction.
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