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Rheumatology waiting times at North Bristol NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 1,216 people were on the Rheumatology at North Bristol NHS Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (62%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

North Bristol NHS Trust · NHS trust · Rheumatology across England

People waiting
1,216
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
62.1%
England: 70.4%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
—
Published median for this list

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

We do not have both figures for this service, so we are not making a comparison.

Why this page exists

This page combines facts that neither the organisation page nor the England specialty page shows on its own: other NHS trusts within 25 miles reporting the same service.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 9.5 percentage points (72% to 62%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 3.7 points over 3 months (58.4% in March 2026); up 6.2 points over 6 months (55.9% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

18-week performance deteriorating · -9.5 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 202571.6%
August 202567.4%
September 202564.9%
October 202560.9%
November 202557.6%
December 202555.9%
January 202655.1%
February 202656.1%
March 202658.4%
April 202659.6%
May 202663.6%
June 202662.1%

Changes of less than 3 percentage points in the share waiting under 18 weeks are treated as broadly stable. This describes the whole waiting list, not how long any one person waits.

Month-by-month figures
Monthly Rheumatology figures at North Bristol NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20251,11671.6%0
August 20251,20667.4%0
September 20251,19564.9%0
October 20251,21160.9%0
November 20251,20557.6%0
December 20251,15855.9%0
January 20261,09955.1%0
February 20261,08856.1%0
March 20261,02458.4%0
April 20261,16959.6%0
May 20261,21663.6%0
June 20261,21662.1%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
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust2.4 mi1,83667%—
Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust11.2 mi1,37568%—

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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