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Rheumatology waiting times at Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 584 people were on the Rheumatology at Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and more than 9 in 10 people (95%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust · NHS trust · Rheumatology across England

People waiting
584
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
95.2%
England: 70.8%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
6 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 24.4 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 Sandwell and West Birmingham 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 8.9 percentage points (86% to 95%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 4 points over 3 months (91.2% in March 2026); up 9 points over 6 months (86.2% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +8.9 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 202586.3%
August 202587.9%
September 202585.2%
October 202580.5%
November 202575.9%
December 202586.2%
January 202682.6%
February 202694.3%
March 202691.2%
April 202691.1%
May 202692.3%
June 202695.2%

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 Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202564486.3%1
August 202570187.9%2
September 202575285.2%0
October 202570280.5%0
November 202569875.9%0
December 202558886.2%0
January 202665082.6%0
February 202652294.3%1
March 202652391.2%0
April 202650791.1%0
May 202653292.3%0
June 202658495.2%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
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust2.7 mi1,05087%-8.1 pp
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust6.6 mi89669%-26.3 pp
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust7.1 mi86685%-9.9 pp
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust9.7 mi1,27078%-17.4 pp
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust19.9 mi27296%+0.8 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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