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Rheumatology waiting times at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 420 people were on the Rheumatology at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust waiting list and about 9 in 10 people (91%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust · NHS trust · Rheumatology across England

People waiting
420
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
90.5%
England: 70.8%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
8 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 19.7 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 0.9% of everyone waiting at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 38.6 percentage points (52% to 91%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (91.7% in March 2026); up 12 points over 6 months (78.5% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +38.6 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 202551.9%
August 202559.1%
September 202557.3%
October 202564.4%
November 202575.9%
December 202578.5%
January 202688.5%
February 202688.7%
March 202691.7%
April 202684.3%
May 202686.3%
June 202690.5%

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 Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202588351.9%79
August 202580659.1%31
September 202571057.3%13
October 202558764.4%10
November 202554375.9%5
December 202550378.5%1
January 202645288.5%0
February 202647688.7%0
March 202646991.7%0
April 202641484.3%0
May 202647486.3%0
June 202642090.5%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
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust9.4 mi1,05271%-19.3 pp
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust11.7 mi52270%-20.2 pp
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust13.5 mi45778%-12.4 pp
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust14.2 mi95398%+7.3 pp
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust17.2 mi1,17984%-6.9 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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