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Rheumatology waiting times at West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 1,052 people were on the Rheumatology at West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (71%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust · NHS trust · Rheumatology across England

People waiting
1,052
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
71.2%
England: 70.8%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
11 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 broadly in line with the England picture 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 2.3% of everyone waiting at West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals 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 19.3 percentage points (91% to 71%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 3.2 points over 3 months (68.0% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (69.8% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -19.3 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 202590.5%
August 202583.6%
September 202579.6%
October 202573.1%
November 202569.8%
December 202569.8%
January 202668.9%
February 202666.5%
March 202668%
April 202668.1%
May 202668.6%
June 202671.2%

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 West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202564090.5%0
August 202570683.6%1
September 202573179.6%0
October 202582373.1%0
November 202584569.8%1
December 202587769.8%0
January 202685968.9%0
February 202694666.5%0
March 202698668.0%0
April 20261,05668.1%0
May 20261,07668.6%0
June 20261,05271.2%0

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
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust4.2 mi45778%+6.9 pp
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust6.2 mi95398%+26.6 pp
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust8.8 mi52270%-0.9 pp
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust9.4 mi42090%+19.3 pp
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust12.2 mi3,15359%-12.1 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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