Hospital service waiting times

Rheumatology waiting times at Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 819 people were on the Rheumatology at Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 9 in 10 people (85%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Rheumatology across England

People waiting: 819; End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks: 85.3%; England: 70.8%
Over 52 weeks: 1
Median wait: 9 wks; Published median for this list

1 people (0.1%, roughly 1 in 1000) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 14.5 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; the published median wait and 52-week count for this list; the other services this organisation reports. This service accounts for 1.1% of everyone waiting at Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 5.1 percentage points (80% to 85%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (85.8% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (86.0% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +5.1 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
Month	Within 18 weeks
July 2025	80.2%
August 2025	80.5%
September 2025	82.1%
October 2025	85.7%
November 2025	86.5%
December 2025	86%
January 2026	85.8%
February 2026	86%
March 2026	85.8%
April 2026	85.6%
May 2026	87%
June 2026	85.3%

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 Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Month	Waiting	Under 18 weeks	Over 52 weeks
July 2025	728	80.2%	1
August 2025	718	80.5%	1
September 2025	663	82.1%	1
October 2025	649	85.7%	0
November 2025	666	86.5%	0
December 2025	662	86.0%	0
January 2026	648	85.8%	1
February 2026	629	86.0%	1
March 2026	716	85.8%	0
April 2026	720	85.6%	0
May 2026	721	87.0%	0
June 2026	819	85.3%	1

Other NHS trusts offering rheumatology within 25 miles

No other NHS trust within 25 miles reported this service in the latest month.

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.

Related guides on this site

Work out how long you've waited
Explains how the 18-week measure is counted and what a published percentage represents.
How to switch hospitals for faster NHS treatment
Reference article on how hospital switching works within the NHS.
NHS patient choice explained
Background on the legal basis of NHS patient choice.
What happens after 52 weeks on a waiting list
Background on how year-plus waits are treated in NHS reporting.
How to use PALS about a waiting list
Reference article explaining what a Patient Advice and Liaison Service does.

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