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Rheumatology waiting times at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 496 people were on the Rheumatology at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust waiting list and more than 9 in 10 people (98%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
496
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
98.4%
England: 70.8%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
5 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 27.6 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 0.9% of everyone waiting at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks stayed broadly stable (99% to 98%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (99.2% in March 2026); up 2.4 points over 6 months (96.0% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Broadly stable · -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 202599.4%
August 202598.8%
September 202597%
October 202596.9%
November 202597.2%
December 202596%
January 202697.8%
February 202698.7%
March 202699.2%
April 202697%
May 202698.1%
June 202698.4%

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 Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202550499.4%0
August 202548898.8%0
September 202553297.0%0
October 202555196.9%1
November 202556897.2%0
December 202558196.0%0
January 202653897.8%0
February 202655298.7%0
March 202650299.2%0
April 202653697.0%0
May 202651798.1%0
June 202649698.4%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
Isle of Wight NHS Trust14 mi64979%-19.5 pp
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust16.9 mi74180%-18.5 pp
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust20.8 mi72100%+1.6 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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