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Rheumatology waiting times at Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust

At the end of July 2026, 536 people were on the Rheumatology at Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (63%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust · NHS trust · Rheumatology across England

People waiting
536
End of July 2026
Under 18 weeks
63.2%
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 July 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 July 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 25.4 percentage points (89% to 63%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 10.7 points over 3 months (73.9% in April 2026); down 20.4 points over 6 months (83.6% in January 2026); down 25.4 points over 12 months (88.6% in July 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

18-week performance deteriorating · -25.4 points

Percentage of people seen within 18 weeks, over the last 13 published months.

View these figures as a table
Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202588.6%
August 202589.9%
September 202588.6%
October 202589.9%
November 202586.6%
December 202588.2%
January 202683.6%
February 202674.7%
March 202673.6%
April 202673.9%
May 202668.9%
June 202666.9%
July 202663.2%

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 Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202554588.6%0
August 202550489.9%0
September 202544688.6%0
October 202532689.9%0
November 202537486.6%0
December 202562788.2%0
January 202659683.6%0
February 202658074.7%0
March 202650073.6%0
April 202651373.9%0
May 202653368.9%0
June 202651466.9%0
July 202653663.2%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
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust13 mi1,29374%—
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust15.8 mi1,40945%—

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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