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Dermatology waiting times at The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

At the end of August 2026, 2,714 people were on the Dermatology at The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust waiting list and about 9 in 10 people (87%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust · NHS trust · Dermatology across England

People waiting
2,714
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
87.0%
England: 69%
Over 52 weeks
6
Median wait
8 wks
Published median for this list

6 people (0.2%, roughly 1 in 500) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 18 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 6.7% of everyone waiting at The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

Dermatology, NHS England Referral to Treatment figures, April 2024 to August 2026.

18-week performance improved

Published 18-week performance for Dermatology at this organisation has improved over the past 12 months: 87% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 75.5% at the end of August 2025.

Share of people on the waiting list who had been waiting under 18 weeks, at the end of each month. Scale runs from 0% to 100%.
Latest · August 2026
87%
3 months earlier · May 2026
91.4% then · change to latest -4.3 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
88.2% then · change to latest -1.2 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
75.5% then · change to latest +11.5 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
67.5% then · change to latest +19.6 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202687%2,714
July 202689.9%2,129
June 202691.5%1,774
May 202691.4%1,492
April 202691.5%1,330
March 202687.6%1,743
February 202688.2%1,281
January 202684.3%1,252
December 202579.4%1,240
November 202576.7%1,355
October 202571.7%1,623
September 202571.4%1,691
August 202575.5%1,942
July 202573.5%2,124
June 202569.6%2,395
May 202566.5%2,368
April 202562.4%2,196
March 202555.8%2,190
February 202550.2%1,891
January 202544.4%1,783
December 202441.8%1,898
November 202441.3%2,067
October 202438.1%2,088
September 202443.5%2,251
August 202444.9%2,443
July 202456.6%2,612
June 202462.2%2,641
May 202466.8%2,688
April 202467.5%2,796
How we calculate change
  • Each month's figure is the number of people waiting under 18 weeks divided by everyone on the waiting list, from NHS England's published monthly files.
  • Changes compare the latest month with exactly 3, 6 and 12 months earlier, only where both months are published and the list has at least 50 people.
  • The 12-month label is "improved" or "deteriorated" only if the share moved by 3 percentage points or more; smaller moves are called "broadly stable".
  • Where NHS England reissued a month's file, we use the revised file. Months we do not have are left as gaps and never estimated.
  • Earlier months come from our archive of NHS England's published files and are checked against our current figures wherever both exist.

What these figures cannot tell you

  • These are whole-list figures for one specialty at one organisation. They describe the published waiting list, not how long any one person will wait.
  • This specialty covers many conditions and treatments. These figures are not specific to any one operation or condition.
  • Figures are published for the whole organisation, which may run several hospital sites. They do not show the position at any single site.
  • Patients are prioritised by clinical need, so people on the same list can wait very different times.
  • A higher share within 18 weeks is not a measure of the quality of care.

Other NHS trusts offering dermatology 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 Dermatology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust14.5 mi3,18461%-25.6 pp
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust16.3 mi1,76474%-13 pp
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust16.6 mi1,91258%-29.1 pp
Whittington Health NHS Trust17.2 mi1,74839%-48.4 pp
Barts Health NHS Trust18.6 mi7,44258%-29.1 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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