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Rheumatology waiting times at Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 637 people were on the Rheumatology at Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (81%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust · NHS trust · Rheumatology across England

People waiting
637
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
80.8%
England: 70.8%
Over 52 weeks
2
Median wait
8 wks
Published median for this list

2 people (0.3%, roughly 1 in 333) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 10 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 1.1% of everyone waiting at Epsom and St Helier University 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 13 percentage points (68% to 81%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 7.9 points over 3 months (72.9% in March 2026); up 15.6 points over 6 months (65.2% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +13 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 202567.8%
August 202567.2%
September 202569%
October 202563.1%
November 202563.9%
December 202565.2%
January 202665.2%
February 202667.4%
March 202672.9%
April 202673.2%
May 202682.1%
June 202680.8%

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 Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202570167.8%9
August 202573467.2%8
September 202564269.0%9
October 202564763.1%13
November 202564963.9%8
December 202573565.2%6
January 202674765.2%2
February 202668767.4%1
March 202661972.9%2
April 202659473.2%4
May 202662082.1%2
June 202663780.8%2

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
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust3.2 mi1,43674%-6.7 pp
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust3.3 mi1,20866%-15.1 pp
Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust4.9 mi41496%+14.8 pp
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust7.2 mi1,16081%+0.4 pp
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust7.2 mi1,25875%-5.6 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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