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Rheumatology waiting times at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 554 people were on the Rheumatology at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 9 in 10 people (92%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Rheumatology across England

People waiting
554
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
91.9%
England: 70.4%
Over 52 weeks
3
Median wait
6 wks
Published median for this list

3 people (0.5%, roughly 1 in 200) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 21.5 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 0.8% of everyone waiting at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance broadly stable

Published 18-week performance for Rheumatology at this organisation has been broadly stable over the past 12 months (a change of under 3 percentage points): 91.9% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 92.2% 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
91.9%
3 months earlier · May 2026
93.9% then · change to latest -2 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
87.8% then · change to latest +4.1 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
92.2% then · change to latest -0.3 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
79.2% then · change to latest +12.6 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202691.9%554
July 202693%513
June 202694.2%536
May 202693.9%521
April 202691%522
March 202689.5%523
February 202687.8%499
January 202685.7%505
December 202588.9%552
November 202586.6%611
October 202587.2%654
September 202591.2%656
August 202592.2%641
July 202590.7%643
June 202591.7%652
May 202590%617
April 202588.8%659
March 202583.2%666
February 202580.7%693
January 202580.5%697
December 202479%756
November 202481.3%787
October 202481.5%816
September 202481.5%860
August 202481.6%906
July 202479.8%907
June 202481.1%921
May 202482.5%913
April 202479.2%906
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 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
Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust8 mi30893%+0.7 pp
Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust10.1 mi37565%-27.1 pp
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust13 mi52179%-13.2 pp
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust16.1 mi1,40957%-34.7 pp
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust18.7 mi42377%-14.8 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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