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Rheumatology waiting times at Bristol NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 556 people were on the Rheumatology at Bristol NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and more than 9 in 10 people (97%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Rheumatology across England

People waiting
556
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
96.8%
England: 70.8%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
5 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 26 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 Bristol NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 20.6 percentage points (76% to 97%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 18.2 points over 3 months (78.6% in March 2026); up 19.6 points over 6 months (77.2% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +20.6 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 202576.2%
August 202574.4%
September 202572.4%
October 202574.9%
November 202577.3%
December 202577.2%
January 202674.7%
February 202669.5%
March 202678.6%
April 202682.2%
May 202692.2%
June 202696.8%

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 Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202563976.2%0
August 202569574.4%0
September 202564972.4%0
October 202562674.9%0
November 202566077.3%0
December 202565377.2%0
January 202664874.7%0
February 202667269.5%0
March 202660778.6%0
April 202664082.2%0
May 202662792.2%0
June 202655696.8%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
North Bristol NHS Trust2.4 mi1,21662%-34.7 pp
Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust9.9 mi1,41871%-26.2 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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