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Rheumatology waiting times at Medway NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 3,335 people were on the Rheumatology at Medway NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 3 in 10 people (31%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Medway NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Rheumatology across England

People waiting
3,335
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
31.2%
England: 70.8%
Over 52 weeks
289
Median wait
30 wks
Published median for this list

289 people (8.7%, roughly 1 in 11) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 39.6 percentage points behind 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 9.5% of everyone waiting at Medway 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 10.1 percentage points (41% to 31%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 2.7 points over 3 months (33.9% in March 2026); down 5.6 points over 6 months (36.8% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -10.1 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 202541.3%
August 202540.9%
September 202540.3%
October 202539.8%
November 202538.5%
December 202536.8%
January 202635.5%
February 202634.2%
March 202633.9%
April 202632.2%
May 202631.3%
June 202631.2%

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 Medway NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20253,03941.3%43
August 20253,04540.9%25
September 20253,07740.3%23
October 20253,20539.8%47
November 20253,26438.5%108
December 20253,28136.8%79
January 20263,28935.5%74
February 20263,32334.2%124
March 20263,38733.9%198
April 20263,34432.2%241
May 20263,30631.3%281
June 20263,33531.2%289

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
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust7.8 mi421100%+68.9 pp
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust13.6 mi2,27348%+16.6 pp
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust20.4 mi1,16278%+46.8 pp
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust24.7 mi69683%+52.2 pp
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust24.8 mi2,97042%+11.1 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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