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Dermatology waiting times at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

At the end of August 2026, 1,912 people were on the Dermatology at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (58%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust · NHS trust · Dermatology across England

People waiting
1,912
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
57.9%
England: 69%
Over 52 weeks
102
Median wait
14 wks
Published median for this list

102 people (5.3%, roughly 1 in 19) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 11.1 percentage points behind 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 3.3% of everyone waiting at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance broadly stable

Published 18-week performance for Dermatology at this organisation has been broadly stable over the past 12 months (a change of under 3 percentage points): 57.9% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 56.1% 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
57.9%
3 months earlier · May 2026
51.8% then · change to latest +6.1 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
58.1% then · change to latest -0.2 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
56.1% then · change to latest +1.8 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
56.6% then · change to latest +1.3 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202657.9%1,912
July 202655.7%1,733
June 202651.1%1,508
May 202651.8%1,377
April 202654.7%1,431
March 202656.7%1,314
February 202658.1%1,262
January 202659.5%1,280
December 202556.6%1,241
November 202554.2%1,237
October 202555.5%1,311
September 202549.5%1,507
August 202556.1%1,409
July 202553.8%1,235
June 202556.9%1,240
May 202556.5%1,330
April 202556.5%1,277
March 202555.9%1,346
February 202559.7%1,267
January 202558.9%1,342
December 202457.6%1,225
November 202455.2%1,321
October 202454.1%1,307
September 202456.2%1,510
August 202456.5%1,550
July 202458.8%1,542
June 202457%1,448
May 202460.6%1,461
April 202456.6%1,305
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
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust11.4 mi8,46754%-3.8 pp
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust16.6 mi2,71487%+29.1 pp
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust20.7 mi3,60282%+24.2 pp
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust22.9 mi4,08465%+6.6 pp
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust23.4 mi1,42797%+39 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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