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Dermatology waiting times at Whittington Health NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 1,740 people were on the Dermatology at Whittington Health NHS Trust waiting list and about 3 in 10 people (33%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Whittington Health NHS Trust · NHS trust · Dermatology across England

People waiting
1,740
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
32.9%
England: 69%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
24 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 36.1 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; 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 7.6% of everyone waiting at Whittington Health 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 23.7 percentage points (57% to 33%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 19.4 points over 3 months (52.3% in March 2026); down 5.8 points over 6 months (38.7% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -23.7 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 202556.6%
August 202553.6%
September 202550.7%
October 202545.7%
November 202541.1%
December 202538.7%
January 202637.7%
February 202642.8%
March 202652.3%
April 202644.7%
May 202640%
June 202632.9%

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 Whittington Health NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20252,47256.6%4
August 20252,63653.6%10
September 20252,86650.7%116
October 20252,97745.7%236
November 20252,97441.1%270
December 20253,11538.7%321
January 20262,75037.7%102
February 20262,51942.8%13
March 20261,81552.3%2
April 20261,79944.7%2
May 20261,76240.0%1
June 20261,74032.9%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
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust1.5 mi9,37981%+48.2 pp
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust2.8 mi2,74264%+31 pp
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust3.7 mi4,32974%+40.8 pp
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust4.1 mi1,49581%+47.7 pp
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust4.8 mi7,23679%+45.6 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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