Hospital service waiting times

Dermatology waiting times at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 9,849 people were on the Dermatology at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 4 in 10 people (39%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Dermatology across England

People waiting: 9,849; End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks: 38.8%; England: 69%
Over 52 weeks: 883
Median wait: 24 wks; Published median for this list

883 people (9.0%, roughly 1 in 11) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 30.2 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 5.9% of everyone waiting at Mid and South Essex 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 5.9 percentage points (45% to 39%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 5.5 points over 3 months (44.3% in March 2026); down 5.1 points over 6 months (43.9% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -5.9 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
Month	Within 18 weeks
July 2025	44.7%
August 2025	45.9%
September 2025	47.2%
October 2025	45.2%
November 2025	45.2%
December 2025	43.9%
January 2026	45.1%
February 2026	43.3%
March 2026	44.3%
April 2026	40.4%
May 2026	37.8%
June 2026	38.8%

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 Dermatology figures at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Month	Waiting	Under 18 weeks	Over 52 weeks
July 2025	14,707	44.7%	1,442
August 2025	14,794	45.9%	1,684
September 2025	15,032	47.2%	1,656
October 2025	14,592	45.2%	1,832
November 2025	14,720	45.2%	1,797
December 2025	14,389	43.9%	1,531
January 2026	14,617	45.1%	1,449
February 2026	13,083	43.3%	1,314
March 2026	11,824	44.3%	1,069
April 2026	10,902	40.4%	935
May 2026	10,169	37.8%	928
June 2026	9,849	38.8%	883

Other NHS trusts offering dermatology 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 Dermatology
Trust	Distance	Waiting	Under 18 weeks	Difference
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust	21.9 mi	3,142	59%	+19.8 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.

Related guides on this site

Work out how long you've waited
Explains how the 18-week measure is counted and what a published percentage represents.
What happens if the NHS misses the 18-week target
Background on what happens when the 18-week standard is not met.
How to switch hospitals for faster NHS treatment
Reference article on how hospital switching works within the NHS.
NHS patient choice explained
Background on the legal basis of NHS patient choice.
What happens after 52 weeks on a waiting list
Background on how year-plus waits are treated in NHS reporting.

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