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Rheumatology waiting times at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 614 people were on the Rheumatology at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust waiting list and about 9 in 10 people (86%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust · NHS trust · Rheumatology across England

People waiting
614
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
86.0%
England: 70.8%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
8 wks
Published median for this list

No one on this list had been waiting more than 52 weeks in June 2026.

This hospital's published position is 15.2 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 0.7% of everyone waiting at Imperial College Healthcare 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 12.6 percentage points (73% to 86%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (85.1% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (84.4% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +12.6 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 202573.4%
August 202576.9%
September 202579.1%
October 202581.4%
November 202583%
December 202584.4%
January 202684.8%
February 202682.8%
March 202685.1%
April 202686.9%
May 202684.4%
June 202686%

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 Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202579473.4%3
August 202580476.9%2
September 202581979.1%6
October 202574281.4%6
November 202564683.0%1
December 202555784.4%0
January 202660484.8%0
February 202661582.8%0
March 202663785.1%0
April 202661986.9%0
May 202662084.4%0
June 202661486.0%0

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
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust1.7 mi93564%-22 pp
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust2.3 mi1,25875%-10.8 pp
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust2.5 mi3,15359%-26.8 pp
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust2.7 mi49092%+6.1 pp
Whittington Health NHS Trust3.7 mi29391%+4.8 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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