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Thurrock Community Hospital

Long Lane, Grays, RM16 2QD · Run by North East London NHS Foundation Trust · 01375390044

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.

Waiting times
Below NHS standard
75.7% within 18 weeks · standard 92% · About this data
A&E
Meets NHS standard
96.7% within 4 hours · standard 95% · About this data
Cancer
Below NHS standard
0.0% treated within 62 days · standard 85% · About this data
Diagnostics
Below NHS standard
78.6% waiting 6+ weeks · standard 1.0% or fewer · About this data
Mortality (SHMI)
No data
No data · About this data

In plain English

AI-generated

North East London NHS Foundation Trust reported 1,751 A&E attendances in July 2026. Of these patients, 96.7% were dealt with within four hours, and zero waited over 12 hours after a decision to admit. Additionally, 65.4% of staff in the 2025 NHS Staff Survey said they would be happy for a friend or relative to be treated there.

Automatically generated from the official figures on this page and checked to restate only those figures. Last generated 16 August 2026. This is a plain-English summary, not medical advice. About these summaries

Performance at a glance

A&E patients seen within 4 hours
Trust-wide
96.7%
National median: 74.2%
1.1 pts vs yr agoBetter than 94% of trustsData: Jul 2026
A&E attendances
Trust-wide
1,751
National median: 14,642
156 vs yr agoData: Jul 2026
12-hour trolley waits
Trust-wide
0
National median: 194
Better than 81% of trustsData: Jul 2026

NHS England publishes waiting-time and A&E figures per trust, not per building — figures marked Trust-wide cover all hospitals run by North East London NHS Foundation Trust.

Performance over time

Trust-wide (North East London NHS Foundation Trust) · hover a month for the exact figure · monthly data table

Total waiting list
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
2,0003,000Apr 21Jan 22Jan 242,4771,229April 20211,557May 20211,316June 20211,660July 20211,823August 20211,792September 20211,888October 20212,120November 20212,111December 20212,248January 20222,296February 20222,494March 20222,742April 20232,927May 20233,044June 20233,022July 20232,844August 20232,682September 20232,539October 20232,391November 20232,222December 20232,477January 2024
Waiting under 18 weeks
Share of the waiting list
70%80%90%Apr 21Jan 22Jan 24NHS standard 92%75.7%80.1%April 202180.4%May 202176.1%June 202180.4%July 202179.8%August 202177.5%September 202176.6%October 202176.1%November 202173.7%December 202171.8%January 202269.5%February 202273.9%March 202279.5%April 202380.1%May 202381.8%June 202384.9%July 202383.7%August 202380.4%September 202377.6%October 202375.5%November 202372.5%December 202375.7%January 2024
A&E seen within 4 hours
All department types
94%96%98%100%Apr 20Jan 21Jan 22Jan 23Jan 24Jan 26NHS standard 95%96.7%99.6%April 202098.9%May 202099.3%June 202099.6%July 202099.2%August 202097.7%September 202099.9%October 202099.2%November 202099.7%December 202099.0%January 2021100.0%February 202199.9%March 202199.7%April 202199.7%May 202196.8%June 202195.6%July 202199.4%August 202196.9%September 202196.6%October 202196.5%November 202196.0%December 202199.3%January 202299.4%February 202296.4%March 202299.2%April 202298.1%May 202297.5%June 202295.0%July 202295.3%August 202298.4%September 202297.3%October 202296.0%November 202295.0%December 202295.1%January 202395.1%February 202396.2%March 202398.9%April 202394.5%May 202393.8%June 202397.1%July 202397.0%August 202396.1%September 202395.7%October 202396.6%November 202398.1%December 202399.1%January 202496.4%February 202497.3%January 202597.3%February 202596.3%March 202596.4%April 202596.0%May 202596.5%June 202595.6%July 202595.2%August 202595.2%September 202598.1%October 202596.9%November 202598.9%December 202597.5%January 202697.4%February 202697.1%March 202698.1%April 202698.3%May 202696.9%June 202696.7%July 2026

A&E performance

Trust-wide (North East London NHS Foundation Trust) · Latest month: July 2026· all A&E department types combined — the official headline basis.

A&E attendances
1,751
All department types · latest month
Seen within 4 hours
96.7%
All department types · NHS standard: 95%
Waited over 12 hours
0
From decision-to-admit ('trolley waits')
Emergency admissions
0
All department types · latest month

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 typeAttendancesWithin 4 hours
All types (official headline)1,75196.7%
Type 3 — minor injury / UTC1,75196.7%

Source: NHS England A&E Attendances & Emergency Admissions. About this data

Cancer waiting times

Trust-wide (North East London NHS Foundation Trust) · Latest month: May 2026.

Treatment within 62 days
0.0%
0 of 1 treated in time
Target 85% · below target
Treated within 62 days
Urgent referral to first treatment
0%25%50%75%Nov 25NHS standard 85%0.0%0.0%November 20250.0%May 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.

Staff happy for a friend or relative to be treated here
65.4%
Agreed · 2025 NHS Staff Survey▼ 3.6 pts vs 2024Median English trust: 63.9%
Staff engagement
7.04
out of 10 · 2025
Would recommend as a place to work
64.8%
Agreed · 2025

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 (North East London 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.

Ambulance handovers over 30 minutes
72.7%
of 609 handovers, winter 2025-26
Ambulance handovers over 60 minutes
10.3%
of 609 handovers, winter 2025-26

Source: NHS England UEC Daily SitRep, Ambulance Handover and Acute Discharge SitRep collections. About this data

Diagnostic test waits

Trust-wide (North East London NHS Foundation Trust) · Latest month: June 2026. The operational standard is that under 1% should wait more than 6 weeks.

Waiting 6+ weeks for a test
78.6%
of 98 patients on the diagnostic waiting list
TestWaiting list6+ weeks6+ weeks (count)13+ weeks
Audiology9878.6%7749
Waiting 6+ weeks for a diagnostic test
All tests combined
60%80%Apr 25Jan 2678.6%60.1%April 202561.7%May 202555.8%June 202566.3%July 202564.8%August 202561.1%September 202545.9%October 202547.5%November 202584.9%December 202576.9%January 202669.9%February 202683.0%March 202686.9%April 202675.8%May 202678.6%June 2026

Source: NHS England Diagnostic Waiting Times & Activity (DM01). About this data

Waiting times by specialty

Trust-wide (North East London NHS Foundation Trust) · Data: January 2024 · Source: NHS England Referral to Treatment statistics

SpecialtyWaitingWithin 18 wksMedian wait9 in 10 wait under52+ wks65+ wks78+ wks
Other - Paediatrics2,38874.8%8.2 wks38.0 wks2273
Elderly Medicine89100.0%2.4 wks6.7 wks000

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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.