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Dermatology waiting times at Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 1,552 people were on the Dermatology at Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (70%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Dermatology across England

People waiting
1,552
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
69.7%
England: 69%
Over 52 weeks
32
Median wait
10 wks
Published median for this list

32 people (2.1%, roughly 1 in 48) 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 6.7% of everyone waiting at Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

Dermatology, NHS England Referral to Treatment figures, April 2024 to August 2026.

18-week performance improved

Published 18-week performance for Dermatology at this organisation has improved over the past 12 months: 69.7% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 63.8% at the end of August 2025.

Share of people on the waiting list who had been waiting under 18 weeks, at the end of each month. Scale runs from 0% to 100%.
Latest · August 2026
69.7%
3 months earlier · May 2026
60.2% then · change to latest +9.5 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
59.5% then · change to latest +10.2 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
63.8% then · change to latest +6 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
57% then · change to latest +12.7 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202669.7%1,552
July 202668.3%1,651
June 202665.4%1,519
May 202660.2%1,374
April 202657.5%1,371
March 202657.8%1,328
February 202659.5%1,283
January 202662.6%1,242
December 202565.6%1,299
November 202567.2%1,383
October 202571.5%1,426
September 202569.3%1,485
August 202563.8%1,399
July 202565.5%1,416
June 202561.4%1,291
May 202563.2%1,311
April 202561.5%1,294
March 202561.8%1,232
February 202559.2%1,215
January 202558.9%1,273
December 202461.7%1,400
November 202460.5%1,518
October 202458.2%1,475
September 202456.8%1,616
August 202454.2%1,653
July 202453.5%1,577
June 202455.2%1,487
May 202455.8%1,433
April 202457%1,362
How we calculate change
  • Each month's figure is the number of people waiting under 18 weeks divided by everyone on the waiting list, from NHS England's published monthly files.
  • Changes compare the latest month with exactly 3, 6 and 12 months earlier, only where both months are published and the list has at least 50 people.
  • The 12-month label is "improved" or "deteriorated" only if the share moved by 3 percentage points or more; smaller moves are called "broadly stable".
  • Where NHS England reissued a month's file, we use the revised file. Months we do not have are left as gaps and never estimated.
  • Earlier months come from our archive of NHS England's published files and are checked against our current figures wherever both exist.

What these figures cannot tell you

  • These are whole-list figures for one specialty at one organisation. They describe the published waiting list, not how long any one person will wait.
  • This specialty covers many conditions and treatments. These figures are not specific to any one operation or condition.
  • Figures are published for the whole organisation, which may run several hospital sites. They do not show the position at any single site.
  • Patients are prioritised by clinical need, so people on the same list can wait very different times.
  • A higher share within 18 weeks is not a measure of the quality of care.

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
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust20.7 mi4,52667%-3.1 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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