Arundel and District Hospital
Chichester Road, Arundel, BN18 0AB · Run by Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust · 01903882543
Acute hospital - NHS non-specialist
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Contains public sector information from the Care Quality Commission, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
At a glance
Whether this trust meets each official NHS operational standard — not a combined score or ranking.
In plain English
AI-generatedSussex Community NHS Foundation Trust reported 13,385 A&E attendances in July 2026, with 96.9% of patients seen within four hours. In June 2026, the median waiting time for treatment was 15.3 weeks, and 56.8% of patients were seen within 18 weeks of referral. Additionally, 79.3% of staff felt happy for a friend or relative to be treated at the trust in 2025.
Automatically generated from the official figures on this page and checked to restate only those figures. Last generated 17 August 2026. This is a plain-English summary, not medical advice. About these summaries
Estates & facilities
This hospital site specifically (2024/25). A high maintenance backlog means more deferred repairs to buildings and equipment.
Source: NHS England Estates Returns Information Collection (ERIC). About this data
Cleanliness & environment
This hospital site specifically (2025). Patient-assessed scores — higher is better.
Source: NHS England Patient-Led Assessments of the Care Environment (PLACE), scored by teams including patient assessors. About this data
Performance at a glance
NHS England publishes waiting-time and A&E figures per trust, not per building — figures marked Trust-wide cover all hospitals run by Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust.
Performance over time
Trust-wide (Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust) · hover a month for the exact figure · monthly data table
A&E performance
Trust-wide (Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust) · Latest month: July 2026· all A&E department types combined — the official headline basis.
This trust does not run a separate major (Type 1) A&E department — the figures above are for its minor-injury unit(s) or urgent treatment centre(s) — Type 3 in NHS England’s classification.
| Department type | Attendances | Within 4 hours |
|---|---|---|
| All types (official headline) | 13,385 | 96.9% |
| Type 3 — minor injury / UTC | 13,385 | 96.9% |
Source: NHS England A&E Attendances & Emergency Admissions. About this data
Cancer waiting times
Trust-wide (Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust) · Latest month: February 2026.
Source: NHS England Cancer Waiting Times. The 62-day standard is urgent referral to first treatment; the 28-day faster-diagnosis standard is referral to diagnosis or ruling-out. About this data
Staff experience (NHS Staff Survey)
2025 · the views of staff who work at this trust — a measure of workforce culture, morale and confidence, not a direct measure of clinical outcomes. There is no official NHS target for these figures, so they are shown as context, never a pass or fail.
The NHS Staff Survey records the views of staff who chose to respond — a measure of workforce culture, morale and staff confidence, not a direct measure of clinical outcomes or safety. Response rates vary between trusts. England only; Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland run separate staff surveys on a different basis, so these figures are never compared across nations.
Source: NHS Staff Survey (NHS England), Open Government Licence. About this data
Bed occupancy, ambulance handovers & delayed discharges (UEC Daily SitRep)
Trust-wide (Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust) · Snapshot at 8am, 29 March 2026. This is unvalidated management information— NHS England's own label — and can be revised for up to 14 days after first publication. It is collected only during the winter Daily SitRep window, so this is the latest date the collection has published, not necessarily today. It measures operational pressure (how full the hospital is), NOT care quality — high occupancy is normal for NHS hospitals, especially in winter, and is not a safety or performance score. The ambulance-handover figures below cover winter 2025-26 as a period total(not a snapshot): the time from an ambulance arriving to the patient being handed over to A&E staff. The delayed-discharge figures cover the most recent 7 daysof the collection (not a snapshot, and not the whole winter): a patient who "no longer meets the criteria to reside" is medically ready to leave hospital, but how quickly they actually do mostly reflects social-care and community capacity to receive them — NOT the hospital's own clinical quality. A higher handover or delayed-discharge figure means more operational pressure — like the rest of this section, none of it is a measure of care quality, and it carries no colour grading, badge or ranking.
Source: NHS England UEC Daily SitRep, Ambulance Handover and Acute Discharge SitRep collections. About this data
Diagnostic test waits
Trust-wide (Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust) · Latest month: June 2026. The operational standard is that under 1% should wait more than 6 weeks.
| Test | Waiting list | 6+ weeks | 6+ weeks (count) | 13+ weeks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CT scan | 67 | 7.5% | 5 | 2 |
| Ultrasound | 1,389 | 6.4% | 89 | 0 |
| MRI | 559 | 2.9% | 16 | 7 |
| Audiology | 165 | 1.8% | 3 | 0 |
| DEXA Scan | 593 | 1.3% | 8 | 0 |
Source: NHS England Diagnostic Waiting Times & Activity (DM01). About this data
Waiting times by specialty
Trust-wide (Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust) · Data: June 2026 · Source: NHS England Referral to Treatment statistics
| Specialty | Waiting | Within 18 wks | Median wait | 9 in 10 wait under | 52+ wks | 65+ wks | 78+ wks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trauma and Orthopaedic | 13,214 | 56.8% | 15.3 wks | 43.7 wks | 301 | 14 | 9 |
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About this data
Every figure on this page comes from an official publication: NHS England Referral to Treatment statistics, NHS England A&E statistics, and the Care Quality Commission directory. Data periods are shown against each figure — NHS England publishes with a lag of around six weeks. Read the full methodology.