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Rheumatology waiting times at Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 656 people were on the Rheumatology at Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (68%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Rheumatology across England

People waiting
656
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
68.0%
England: 70.8%
Over 52 weeks
3
Median wait
11 wks
Published median for this list

3 people (0.5%, roughly 1 in 200) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is broadly in line with the England picture 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 2.2% of everyone waiting at Salisbury 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 18.4 percentage points (50% to 68%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 11.3 points over 3 months (56.7% in March 2026); up 17.6 points over 6 months (50.4% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +18.4 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 202549.6%
August 202547.8%
September 202545.4%
October 202547%
November 202549.2%
December 202550.4%
January 202650.9%
February 202652.9%
March 202656.7%
April 202660.3%
May 202663.8%
June 202668%

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 Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202591349.6%2
August 202596947.8%18
September 202592245.4%30
October 202590447.0%16
November 202585949.2%3
December 202582250.4%1
January 202680050.9%0
February 202671152.9%0
March 202665656.7%0
April 202663060.3%0
May 202666563.8%2
June 202665668.0%3

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
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust13.7 mi72100%+32 pp
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust17.2 mi74180%+11.9 pp
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust23.6 mi1,23788%+19.8 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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