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Rheumatology waiting times at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

At the end of August 2026, 3,891 people were on the Rheumatology at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (52%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust · NHS trust · Rheumatology across England

People waiting
3,891
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
52.1%
England: 70.4%
Over 52 weeks
34
Median wait
18 wks
Published median for this list

34 people (0.9%, roughly 1 in 111) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 18.3 percentage points behind 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 3.4% of everyone waiting at University Hospitals of Leicester 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: 52.1% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 45.2% 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
52.1%
3 months earlier · May 2026
45.8% then · change to latest +6.3 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
46.2% then · change to latest +5.9 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
45.2% then · change to latest +6.9 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
70.9% then · change to latest -18.8 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202652.1%3,891
July 202650.1%4,072
June 202647.6%4,010
May 202645.8%4,210
April 202644.8%4,123
March 202647.8%4,100
February 202646.2%4,091
January 202646.3%3,879
December 202546.2%3,866
November 202546.3%3,885
October 202544.1%4,065
September 202545.3%4,115
August 202545.2%4,284
July 202548.6%4,422
June 202554.9%4,364
May 202558.5%4,246
April 202558.7%4,168
March 202560%4,096
February 202562%4,069
January 202564.3%3,919
December 202464.8%3,753
November 202467.4%3,642
October 202469.1%3,626
September 202469.2%3,492
August 202471%3,485
July 202470.4%3,401
June 202472.2%3,239
May 202472.5%3,139
April 202470.9%2,908
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
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust16.4 mi30793%+41.3 pp
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust19.1 mi62497%+44.6 pp
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust22 mi67887%+35 pp
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust22.7 mi1,29374%+21.4 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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