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Rheumatology waiting times at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 696 people were on the Rheumatology at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (83%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust · NHS trust · Rheumatology across England

People waiting
696
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
83.3%
England: 70.8%
Over 52 weeks
1
Median wait
12 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 12.5 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 1.2% of everyone waiting at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks stayed broadly stable (83% to 83%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 2.6 points over 3 months (85.9% in March 2026); down 2 points over 6 months (85.3% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Broadly stable · +0.2 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 202583.1%
August 202582.9%
September 202586.7%
October 202583.9%
November 202583.8%
December 202585.3%
January 202664.3%
February 202682.9%
March 202685.9%
April 202684.4%
May 202683.7%
June 202683.3%

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 Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202579483.1%3
August 202572182.9%3
September 202577286.7%1
October 202583083.9%1
November 202576483.8%0
December 202571985.3%1
January 202689764.3%0
February 202672482.9%0
March 202683885.9%0
April 202677084.4%0
May 202669283.7%0
June 202669683.3%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
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust3.4 mi1,16081%-2 pp
Barts Health NHS Trust4.7 mi1,32280%-3.3 pp
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust5.3 mi49092%+8.7 pp
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust5.9 mi1,20866%-17.6 pp
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust6.9 mi16799%+16.1 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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