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Rheumatology waiting times at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

At the end of August 2026, 1,077 people were on the Rheumatology at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust waiting list and about 9 in 10 people (86%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
1,077
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
85.8%
England: 70.4%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
8 wks
Published median for this list

No one on this list had been waiting more than 52 weeks in August 2026.

This hospital's published position is 15.4 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 1.5% of everyone waiting at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance improved

Published 18-week performance for Rheumatology at this organisation has improved over the past 12 months: 85.8% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 67.1% 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
85.8%
3 months earlier · May 2026
77.2% then · change to latest +8.6 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
71.9% then · change to latest +13.9 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
67.1% then · change to latest +18.7 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
52.5% then · change to latest +33.3 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202685.8%1,077
July 202683.7%1,040
June 202677.8%1,270
May 202677.2%1,432
April 202677.8%1,401
March 202677.3%1,434
February 202671.9%1,707
January 202673.1%1,731
December 202573.6%1,751
November 202569.9%1,796
October 202568.3%1,747
September 202570.2%1,683
August 202567.1%1,701
July 202569.1%1,755
June 202565.2%1,903
May 202559.4%2,087
April 202553.1%2,522
March 202547.7%2,800
February 202546%2,973
January 202546.7%2,964
December 202448%3,138
November 202449.4%3,138
October 202450.2%3,221
September 202451.4%3,241
August 202455.4%3,333
July 202456.1%3,333
June 202456.5%3,380
May 202456.5%3,671
April 202452.5%3,544
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 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
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust4.2 mi88066%-19.8 pp
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust6.8 mi84587%+1 pp
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust9.7 mi62293%+7 pp
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust12.1 mi1,03585%-0.9 pp
Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust14.6 mi4,78081%-4.5 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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