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Rheumatology waiting times at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 1,148 people were on the Rheumatology at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (61%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
1,148
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
61.0%
England: 70.8%
Over 52 weeks
3
Median wait
14 wks
Published median for this list

3 people (0.3%, roughly 1 in 333) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 9.8 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 1% 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 12.8 percentage points (48% to 61%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 2.7 points over 3 months (63.7% in March 2026); up 6.9 points over 6 months (54.1% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +12.8 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 202548.2%
August 202548.9%
September 202552.5%
October 202546.9%
November 202550.5%
December 202554.1%
January 202652.3%
February 202659.6%
March 202663.7%
April 202662.1%
May 202664%
June 202661%

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 Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20251,85848.2%144
August 20251,83748.9%111
September 20251,80452.5%52
October 20251,52946.9%30
November 20251,46250.5%12
December 20251,43154.1%11
January 20261,28852.3%8
February 20261,23659.6%2
March 20261,17763.7%0
April 20261,16962.1%2
May 20261,17964.0%4
June 20261,14861.0%3

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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