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Dermatology waiting times at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 3,695 people were on the Dermatology at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (68%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Dermatology across England

People waiting
3,695
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
67.9%
England: 69%
Over 52 weeks
8
Median wait
10 wks
Published median for this list

8 people (0.2%, roughly 1 in 500) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is broadly in line with the England picture 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 6.2% of everyone waiting at Cambridge University 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 improved by 10 percentage points (58% to 68%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 9.4 points over 3 months (58.5% in March 2026); up 11.7 points over 6 months (56.2% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +10 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 202557.9%
August 202557.3%
September 202557.6%
October 202557.1%
November 202555.7%
December 202556.2%
January 202655.8%
February 202656.3%
March 202658.5%
April 202660.3%
May 202664.7%
June 202667.9%

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 Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20255,04957.9%193
August 20255,07357.3%227
September 20254,83157.6%191
October 20254,53157.1%188
November 20254,32955.7%168
December 20254,15356.2%152
January 20263,88855.8%104
February 20263,68656.3%75
March 20263,40058.5%9
April 20263,36360.3%3
May 20263,48964.7%3
June 20263,69567.9%8

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 Trust22.9 mi1,50851%-16.8 pp
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust24.4 mi2,62288%+19.8 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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