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Rheumatology waiting times at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 473 people were on the Rheumatology at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 9 in 10 people (87%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust · NHS trust · Rheumatology across England

People waiting
473
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
86.9%
England: 70.8%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
8 wks
Published median for this list

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

This hospital's published position is 16.1 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 0.6% of everyone waiting at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 8 percentage points (79% to 87%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 6.3 points over 3 months (93.2% in March 2026); up 17.4 points over 6 months (69.5% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +8 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 202578.9%
August 202577.4%
September 202571.9%
October 202572%
November 202568.9%
December 202569.5%
January 202674%
February 202677.7%
March 202693.2%
April 202686.8%
May 202687.4%
June 202686.9%

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 Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202586178.9%1
August 202588577.4%0
September 202586071.9%1
October 202594972.0%3
November 202587268.9%3
December 202587469.5%0
January 202680474.0%0
February 202676177.7%0
March 202663393.2%0
April 202669186.8%0
May 202669387.4%1
June 202647386.9%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
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust13.3 mi16999%+11.9 pp
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust13.8 mi1,55492%+4.9 pp
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust22 mi34880%-7 pp
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust22 mi4,01048%-39.3 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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