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Rheumatology waiting times at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 878 people were on the Rheumatology at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (69%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust · NHS trust · Rheumatology across England

People waiting
878
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
68.5%
England: 70.8%
Over 52 weeks
1
Median wait
11 wks
Published median for this list

1 people (0.1%, roughly 1 in 1000) 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 1.9% of everyone waiting at East Lancashire Hospitals 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 7.6 percentage points (61% to 69%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 3.4 points over 3 months (65.1% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (67.3% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +7.6 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 202560.9%
August 202560.5%
September 202560.1%
October 202558.1%
November 202565.9%
December 202567.3%
January 202668.7%
February 202667.1%
March 202665.1%
April 202664.6%
May 202667.4%
June 202668.5%

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 East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202593960.9%3
August 202592960.5%6
September 202594560.1%5
October 202586658.1%6
November 202586165.9%3
December 202591767.3%4
January 202690868.7%7
February 202685567.1%3
March 202690065.1%1
April 202687864.6%1
May 202687367.4%0
June 202687868.5%1

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
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust7.3 mi43288%+20 pp
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust12.6 mi61484%+15.9 pp
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust14 mi90479%+10.3 pp
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust18.1 mi2,17261%-7.7 pp
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust21.2 mi1,12891%+22.4 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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