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Rheumatology waiting times at The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 522 people were on the Rheumatology at The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (70%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Rheumatology across England

People waiting
522
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
70.3%
England: 70.8%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
11 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 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 1.6% of everyone waiting at The Hillingdon Hospitals 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 34.5 percentage points (36% to 70%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (70.1% in March 2026); up 11.7 points over 6 months (58.6% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +34.5 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 202535.8%
August 202544.4%
September 202555.7%
October 202555.5%
November 202556.2%
December 202558.6%
January 202659.8%
February 202665.8%
March 202670.1%
April 202669.5%
May 202674.7%
June 202670.3%

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 The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20251,10135.8%47
August 20251,14044.4%40
September 20251,07255.7%14
October 20251,06055.5%6
November 20251,05256.2%1
December 202594358.6%0
January 202689059.8%0
February 202680565.8%0
March 202675970.1%0
April 202665269.5%0
May 202657474.7%1
June 202652270.3%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
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust6.9 mi95398%+27.5 pp
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust8.8 mi1,05271%+0.9 pp
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust9.8 mi45778%+7.8 pp
Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust10.6 mi39064%-6.7 pp
Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust10.9 mi41496%+25.3 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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