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Rheumatology waiting times at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 519 people were on the Rheumatology at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust waiting list and about 9 in 10 people (87%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust · NHS trust · Rheumatology across England

People waiting
519
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
86.7%
England: 70.8%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
6 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 15.9 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; the published median wait and 52-week count for this list; the other services this organisation reports. This service accounts for 1.1% of everyone waiting at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 8.5 percentage points (78% to 87%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (88.5% in March 2026); up 9.4 points over 6 months (77.3% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +8.5 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 202578.2%
August 202575.5%
September 202574.5%
October 202572.2%
November 202571.6%
December 202577.3%
January 202684.5%
February 202686.7%
March 202688.5%
April 202687.7%
May 202685.6%
June 202686.7%

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 University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202567978.2%0
August 202571375.5%0
September 202569974.5%0
October 202570872.2%2
November 202572171.6%2
December 202562277.3%1
January 202655584.5%1
February 202647286.7%0
March 202650488.5%0
April 202648887.7%1
May 202648085.6%1
June 202651986.7%0

Other NHS trusts offering rheumatology within 25 miles

No other NHS trust within 25 miles reported this service in the latest month.

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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