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Dermatology waiting times at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 1,165 people were on the Dermatology at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (76%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust · NHS trust · Dermatology across England

People waiting
1,165
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
76.1%
England: 69%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
7 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 7.1 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 1.6% of everyone waiting at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 3.9 percentage points (80% to 76%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (77.9% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (75.4% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -3.9 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 202580%
August 202584.6%
September 202587.7%
October 202584.4%
November 202575.2%
December 202575.4%
January 202670.5%
February 202672.8%
March 202677.9%
April 202678.2%
May 202679.2%
June 202676.1%

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 Dermatology figures at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202567180.0%0
August 202580184.6%0
September 202577187.7%0
October 202591784.4%1
November 202576775.2%3
December 202570275.4%1
January 202680170.5%0
February 202683072.8%0
March 202688777.9%1
April 202692378.2%2
May 20261,13279.2%3
June 20261,16576.1%0

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
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust4.2 mi1,13777%+0.9 pp
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust6.8 mi3,76167%-8.9 pp
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust9.7 mi3,73158%-18.3 pp
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust12.1 mi5,33074%-2.6 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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