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Dermatology waiting times at Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 1,137 people were on the Dermatology at Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (77%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust · NHS trust · Dermatology across England

People waiting
1,137
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
77.0%
England: 69%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
7 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 8 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 4.1% of everyone waiting at Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 10.1 percentage points (87% to 77%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 2.9 points over 3 months (74.1% in March 2026); up 10 points over 6 months (67.0% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -10.1 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 202587.1%
August 202580.4%
September 202579.2%
October 202575%
November 202572%
December 202567%
January 202668.9%
February 202672.2%
March 202674.1%
April 202672.6%
May 202672.1%
June 202677%

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 Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20251,09987.1%0
August 20251,09380.4%0
September 20251,07479.2%1
October 20251,05875.0%0
November 202599072.0%0
December 20251,00467.0%1
January 202697368.9%0
February 20261,01072.2%0
March 20261,02074.1%0
April 20261,08672.6%0
May 20261,08572.1%0
June 20261,13777.0%0

Other NHS trusts offering dermatology 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 Dermatology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust4.2 mi1,16576%-0.9 pp
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust6.6 mi3,73158%-19.2 pp
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust7.5 mi3,76167%-9.8 pp
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust9.3 mi5,33074%-3.5 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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