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Rheumatology waiting times at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 644 people were on the Rheumatology at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 9 in 10 people (92%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust · NHS trust · Rheumatology across England

People waiting
644
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
92.2%
England: 70.8%
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 21.4 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 1.1% of everyone waiting at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 6.9 percentage points (85% to 92%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (91.9% in March 2026); up 5.4 points over 6 months (86.8% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +6.9 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 202585.3%
August 202581.2%
September 202577.7%
October 202581.7%
November 202585.4%
December 202586.8%
January 202686%
February 202687.9%
March 202691.9%
April 202691.4%
May 202691.8%
June 202692.2%

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 Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202563385.3%0
August 202566681.2%0
September 202572277.7%0
October 202567381.7%0
November 202565885.4%1
December 202568486.8%0
January 202668186.0%0
February 202659387.9%0
March 202657791.9%0
April 202660491.4%0
May 202664491.8%1
June 202664492.2%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
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust20.6 mi1,05087%-5.1 pp
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust21.2 mi1,21767%-24.9 pp
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust21.6 mi86685%-6.9 pp
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust22.9 mi58495%+3 pp
Wye Valley NHS Trust24.1 mi49982%-10.3 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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