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Dermatology waiting times at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 8,197 people were on the Dermatology at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (54%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Dermatology across England

People waiting
8,197
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
54.1%
England: 69%
Over 52 weeks
11
Median wait
17 wks
Published median for this list

11 people (0.1%, roughly 1 in 1000) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 14.9 percentage points behind 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 9.9% of everyone waiting at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 10.5 percentage points (65% to 54%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 2.9 points over 3 months (57.0% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (54.2% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -10.5 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 202564.6%
August 202564.9%
September 202564%
October 202559.4%
November 202556.8%
December 202554.2%
January 202655.2%
February 202655.6%
March 202657%
April 202657.7%
May 202654.6%
June 202654.1%

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 Dermatology figures at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20256,56764.6%115
August 20256,79564.9%109
September 20257,12764.0%76
October 20257,37059.4%52
November 20256,99656.8%44
December 20256,98354.2%55
January 20267,11855.2%48
February 20267,14755.6%31
March 20267,09757.0%0
April 20267,40557.7%1
May 20267,72254.6%1
June 20268,19754.1%11

Other NHS trusts offering dermatology 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 Dermatology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust11.4 mi1,50851%-2.9 pp
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust14.4 mi76797%+42.5 pp
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust17.2 mi3,69684%+30 pp
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust17.2 mi3,32579%+25 pp
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust23 mi3,26952%-2.2 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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