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Dermatology waiting times at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 8,512 people were on the Dermatology at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (58%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Dermatology across England

People waiting
8,512
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
58.3%
England: 69%
Over 52 weeks
755
Median wait
13 wks
Published median for this list

755 people (8.9%, roughly 1 in 11) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 10.7 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; the published median wait and 52-week count for this list; the other services this organisation reports. This service accounts for 7.3% of everyone waiting at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 4.2 percentage points (54% to 58%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (56.4% in March 2026); up 8.8 points over 6 months (49.5% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +4.2 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 202554.1%
August 202549.9%
September 202549.4%
October 202552.7%
November 202551.7%
December 202549.5%
January 202645.9%
February 202646%
March 202656.4%
April 202658.1%
May 202655.2%
June 202658.3%

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 University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20258,46554.1%471
August 20258,29549.9%526
September 20257,76249.4%481
October 20258,81852.7%597
November 20259,03651.7%626
December 20258,83249.5%642
January 20268,47645.9%719
February 20268,14346.0%755
March 20268,35156.4%622
April 20268,76858.1%684
May 20268,15955.2%765
June 20268,51258.3%755

Other NHS trusts offering dermatology 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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