Rheumatology waiting times by hospital in England (June 2026)

week England average

weeks between the fastest and slowest provider

118k

people waiting across 123 providers

That spread is the whole point. Someone waiting at the slowest provider could, on these figures, be seen about 27 weeks sooner elsewhere, if they know to ask. The median also hides the tail: 1,095 of the 118,364 people on this list nationally have been waiting more than a year.

#	Provider	Median	Within 18wk	Waiting
1	Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust London	3 wks	99%	167
2	Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Barnsley	3 wks	99%	220
3	Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Sutton-in-Ashfield	3 wks	99%	169
4	Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust Maidstone	3 wks	100%	421
5	University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust Coventry	4 wks	96%	600
6	Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust Kingston upon Thames	4 wks	96%	413
7	London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust Harrow	4 wks	98%	953
8	University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust Bristol	5 wks	97%	555
9	Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust Camberley	5 wks	94%	536
10	Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust Portsmouth	5 wks	98%	496
11	Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Southampton	5 wks	100%	72
12	Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust London	5 wks	92%	489
13	George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust Nuneaton	5 wks	96%	272
14	Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust Smethwick	6 wks	95%	584
15	South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust Warwick	6 wks	96%	359
16	University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust Plymouth	6 wks	87%	519
17	Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust Truro	6 wks	95%	651
18	Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust Guildford	6 wks	93%	290
19	Dorking Healthcare Limited (Dhc) Redhill	6 wks	94%	280
20	Manchester Surgical Services Ltd Manchester	6 wks	99%	76
21	Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Swindon	6 wks	92%	353
22	Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust Harrogate	6 wks	95%	317
23	Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust Manchester	6 wks	91%	1,124
24	Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Chester	6 wks	95%	478
25	Whittington Health NHS Trust London	6 wks	91%	293
26	Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust Ashton-Under-Lyne	6 wks	97%	380
27	Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust Worcester	7 wks	92%	644
28	Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Oxford	7 wks	89%	1,322
29	Cora Health Msk (Formerly Connect Health Ltd) Newcastle upon Tyne	7 wks	88%	1,304
30	University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust Birmingham	7 wks	87%	1,047
31	East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust St. Leonards-on-Sea	7 wks	90%	786
32	The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Oswestry	7 wks	94%	622
33	Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Chesterfield	7 wks	80%	348
34	Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust Stafford	7 wks	85%	4,774
35	University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust Derby	7 wks	92%	1,554
36	The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Newcastle upon Tyne	7 wks	93%	742
37	Wye Valley NHS Trust Hereford	7 wks	84%	407
38	Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Cambridge	7 wks	86%	1,858
39	Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Bradford	7 wks	90%	463
40	The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust Rotherham	7 wks	94%	764
41	Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust Preston	7 wks	88%	432
42	Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust Carshalton	7 wks	81%	637
43	Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust East Grinstead	7 wks	85%	65
44	Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust London	8 wks	86%	614
45	Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Amersham	8 wks	91%	420
46	Isle of Wight NHS Trust Newport	8 wks	79%	649
47	The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust Wolverhampton	8 wks	78%	1,270
48	Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust Nottingham	8 wks	87%	473
49	Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust Reading	8 wks	87%	579
50	Epsomedical Group Cobham	8 wks	90%	58
51	Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust North Shields	8 wks	85%	1,163
52	Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Exeter	8 wks	85%	818
53	Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust Stanmore	8 wks	78%	446
54	West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust Bury St. Edmunds	8 wks	91%	799
55	Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Luton	8 wks	84%	1,179
56	University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust Poole	8 wks	88%	1,237
57	The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust Dudley	8 wks	85%	865
58	York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust York	8 wks	83%	672
59	Medefer London	9 wks	90%	182
60	Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust Redhill	9 wks	76%	818
61	Barts Health NHS Trust London	9 wks	80%	1,321
62	St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust London	9 wks	74%	1,436
63	University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust Southampton	9 wks	80%	741
64	James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Great Yarmouth	9 wks	87%	596
65	Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Liverpool	9 wks	84%	537
66	Cora Health Diagnostics (Formerly Healthshare Diagnostics) West Malling	9 wks	74%	70
67	King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust London	9 wks	81%	1,160
68	South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust Sunderland	9 wks	79%	1,058
69	Bolton NHS Foundation Trust Bolton	9 wks	84%	614
70	Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust Wakefield	9 wks	81%	567
71	Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Wigan	10 wks	79%	903
72	The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust King's Lynn	10 wks	80%	594
73	Airedale NHS Foundation Trust Keighley	10 wks	71%	397
74	Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust Gateshead	10 wks	85%	394
75	North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust Hartlepool	10 wks	82%	552
76	Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Cheltenham	10 wks	67%	1,212
77	Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust Romford	10 wks	78%	1,162
78	University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust Kendal	11 wks	72%	945
79	East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust Blackburn	11 wks	69%	878
80	West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Watford	11 wks	71%	1,052
81	The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Uxbridge	11 wks	70%	522
82	Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust Bath	11 wks	71%	1,416
83	Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust Huddersfield	11 wks	74%	970
84	Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust Salisbury	11 wks	68%	656
85	Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust London	11 wks	75%	1,258
86	Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Hull	11 wks	69%	1,112
87	Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust London	11 wks	83%	696
88	Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Chertsey	11 wks	64%	390
89	Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Kettering	12 wks	68%	1,099
90	Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Norwich	12 wks	70%	1,197
91	Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust Walsall	12 wks	69%	896
92	Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Doncaster	12 wks	70%	844
93	Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Blackpool	12 wks	68%	1,067
94	Croydon Health Services NHS Trust Thornton Heath	12 wks	66%	1,208
95	Somerset NHS Foundation Trust Taunton	13 wks	62%	888
96	Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Prescot	13 wks	67%	1,519
97	University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust London	13 wks	64%	928
98	North Bristol NHS Trust Bristol	13 wks	62%	1,211
99	North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust Peterborough	13 wks	65%	1,294
100	Stockport NHS Foundation Trust Stockport	13 wks	62%	1,227
101	Nuffield Health the Holly Hospital Buckhurst Hill	14 wks	67%	106
102	Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Leeds	14 wks	64%	2,117
103	The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust Harlow	14 wks	66%	1,254
104	University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust Worthing	14 wks	61%	1,148
105	Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust Salford	14 wks	61%	2,165
106	Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Basingstoke	14 wks	59%	1,411
107	South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Middlesbrough	14 wks	59%	1,430
108	Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust Northampton	14 wks	67%	514
109	Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust London	15 wks	59%	3,152
110	North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust Carlisle	16 wks	57%	1,370
111	Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Crewe	16 wks	54%	1,005
112	East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust Colchester	16 wks	55%	2,369
113	East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust Stevenage	16 wks	56%	1,284
114	North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust Warrington	17 wks	52%	1,220
115	Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust Grimsby	18 wks	51%	1,031
116	Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Wirral	18 wks	49%	1,290
117	County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust Darlington	19 wks	48%	2,008
118	Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust Westcliff-on-Sea	19 wks	48%	2,273
119	University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust Leicester	19 wks	48%	4,010
120	United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Lincoln	20 wks	46%	1,841
121	Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Milton Keynes	20 wks	46%	1,397
122	East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust Canterbury	22 wks	42%	2,969
123	Medway NHS Foundation Trust Gillingham	30 wks	31%	3,335

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