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Rheumatology waiting times at Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 354 people were on the Rheumatology at Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 9 in 10 people (92%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Rheumatology across England

People waiting
354
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
91.8%
England: 70.8%
Over 52 weeks
1
Median wait
7 wks
Published median for this list

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

This hospital's published position is 21 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; 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 Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 4.6 percentage points (96% to 92%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 4.3 points over 3 months (96.1% in March 2026); down 3.1 points over 6 months (94.9% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -4.6 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 202596.4%
August 202593.6%
September 202597.1%
October 202596%
November 202597.5%
December 202594.9%
January 202694.6%
February 202696%
March 202696.1%
April 202693.3%
May 202691.6%
June 202691.8%

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 Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202528096.4%0
August 202526693.6%1
September 202527397.1%0
October 202525396.0%0
November 202523797.5%0
December 202523794.9%0
January 202624094.6%0
February 202627696.0%0
March 202633596.1%0
April 202635793.3%0
May 202637091.6%0
June 202635491.8%1

Other NHS trusts offering rheumatology within 25 miles

No other NHS trust within 25 miles reported this service in the latest month.

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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