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Rheumatology waiting times at Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 497 people were on the Rheumatology at Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 9 in 10 people (95%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Rheumatology across England

People waiting
497
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
94.6%
England: 70.8%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
7 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 23.8 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 1.5% of everyone waiting at Countess of Chester Hospital 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 49.7 percentage points (45% to 95%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 9.6 points over 3 months (85.0% in March 2026); up 36.3 points over 6 months (58.3% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +49.7 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 202544.9%
August 202545.1%
September 202550.1%
October 202553.8%
November 202556.2%
December 202558.3%
January 202664.5%
February 202673.6%
March 202685%
April 202691.9%
May 202690.8%
June 202694.6%

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 Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202575244.9%106
August 202568045.1%84
September 202567850.1%57
October 202561253.8%20
November 202555256.2%11
December 202548458.3%7
January 202641764.5%4
February 202634873.6%2
March 202630085.0%0
April 202639391.9%0
May 202642290.8%0
June 202649794.6%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
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust13.8 mi1,29049%-45.3 pp
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust14.1 mi54784%-10.8 pp
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust15.3 mi1,51967%-27.4 pp
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust17.4 mi1,22052%-42.4 pp
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust18.6 mi1,00554%-40.8 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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