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Rheumatology waiting times at Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 579 people were on the Rheumatology at Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 9 in 10 people (87%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Rheumatology across England

People waiting
579
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
87.4%
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 16.6 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 1.6% of everyone waiting at Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation 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 (88% to 87%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 3.2 points over 3 months (84.2% in March 2026); up 3.1 points over 6 months (84.3% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Broadly stable · -0.2 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 202587.6%
August 202584.9%
September 202585.1%
October 202582.7%
November 202580.7%
December 202584.3%
January 202686%
February 202682.1%
March 202684.2%
April 202682.5%
May 202686%
June 202687.4%

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 Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202552587.6%0
August 202548384.9%0
September 202545685.1%0
October 202548582.7%0
November 202548880.7%0
December 202554084.3%0
January 202653086.0%0
February 202652682.1%0
March 202650084.2%0
April 202650882.5%1
May 202652786.0%1
June 202657987.4%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
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust13 mi53694%+6.8 pp
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust13.4 mi1,41159%-28.5 pp
Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust19.3 mi39064%-23.8 pp
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust20.6 mi42090%+3.1 pp
Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust21 mi29093%+6.1 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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