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Rheumatology waiting times at Barts Health NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 1,322 people were on the Rheumatology at Barts Health NHS Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (80%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Barts Health NHS Trust · NHS trust · Rheumatology across England

People waiting
1,322
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
80.0%
England: 70.8%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
9 wks
Published median for this list

No one on this list had been waiting more than 52 weeks in June 2026.

This hospital's published position is 9.2 percentage points better than the England figure for this service.

Why this page exists

This page combines facts that neither the organisation page nor the England specialty page shows on its own: the current published figure for this one service at this one organisation; how that figure has moved over the months we hold; the England figure for the same service in the same month; other NHS trusts within 25 miles reporting the same service; the published median wait and 52-week count for this list; the other services this organisation reports. This service accounts for 1.1% of everyone waiting at Barts Health NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks stayed broadly stable (80% to 80%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 3.1 points over 3 months (83.1% in March 2026); up 6.4 points over 6 months (73.6% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Broadly stable · +0.4 points

Percentage of people seen within 18 weeks, over the last 12 published months.

View these figures as a table
Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202579.6%
August 202577.5%
September 202576.5%
October 202577.9%
November 202573.6%
December 202573.6%
January 202676.4%
February 202674.9%
March 202683.1%
April 202685%
May 202683.3%
June 202680%

Month-to-month movements of less than two percentage points are treated as normal variation rather than a real change in direction.

Month-by-month figures
Monthly Rheumatology figures at Barts Health NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20251,26179.6%2
August 20251,30077.5%4
September 20251,30676.5%4
October 20251,42277.9%12
November 20251,26573.6%8
December 20251,09873.6%6
January 20261,13676.4%1
February 20261,06074.9%1
March 20261,04783.1%0
April 20261,11085.0%2
May 20261,19583.3%0
June 20261,32280.0%0

Other NHS trusts offering rheumatology within 25 miles

Published figures only. These are whole-list figures for each organisation in one month; a different organisation's published position does not mean an individual referral would move faster there.

Alternative trusts for Rheumatology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust2.4 mi16799%+19.4 pp
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust3 mi49092%+12 pp
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust3.5 mi93564%-16.1 pp
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust3.8 mi1,16081%+1.3 pp
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust4.7 mi69683%+3.3 pp

What these figures cannot tell you

  • Where you are in a queue, or when you will be seen or treated.
  • How urgent your own referral is. These are aggregate waiting-list figures and do not show the clinical priority of an individual patient.
  • Anything about a specific consultant, clinic or site within a trust.
  • What will happen next month: these are end-of-month snapshots of a past period.

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