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Rheumatology waiting times at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 904 people were on the Rheumatology at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (79%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Rheumatology across England

People waiting
904
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
78.8%
England: 70.8%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
10 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 2% of everyone waiting at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals 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 7.1 percentage points (72% to 79%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 8.2 points over 3 months (87.0% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (79.3% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +7.1 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 202571.7%
August 202572.4%
September 202578.1%
October 202577.1%
November 202579.4%
December 202579.3%
January 202678.7%
February 202687.7%
March 202687%
April 202683.6%
May 202681.2%
June 202678.8%

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 Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20251,02171.7%2
August 202597872.4%2
September 202589878.1%0
October 202580477.1%0
November 202581979.4%1
December 202576979.3%1
January 202675078.7%1
February 202660187.7%1
March 202670687.0%1
April 202679583.6%3
May 202683981.2%0
June 202690478.8%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
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust8.2 mi61484%+5.6 pp
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust11.2 mi43288%+9.7 pp
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust11.3 mi1,22052%-26.6 pp
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust11.4 mi1,51967%-11.6 pp
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust13.5 mi2,17261%-18 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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