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Rheumatology waiting times by provider, ranked, England

Rheumatology providers ordered by the median wait NHS England publishes for them, from the May 2026 referral to treatment publication, as of 31 May 2026. NHS trusts and independent-sector providers are ordered in separate tables below, because NHS England publishes them separately. Every figure is a specialty average for that whole provider, not a waiting time for one condition or one person.

Rheumatology providers ordered

90

89 NHS trusts and 1 independent-sector providers meet the pathway floor and have a median published for them in the May 2026 edition. This is a rheumatology specialty average for every condition treated in that specialty.

As of 31 May 2026. NHS England, Incomplete Pathways by Provider

People on the list, NHS trusts

106,726

Incomplete rheumatology pathways reported by the NHS trusts ordered below, added up from NHS England's own published counts.

As of 31 May 2026. NHS England, Incomplete Pathways by Provider

Longest firstShortest firstAll specialties

Rheumatology, NHS trusts, longest published median first

May 2026 data, as of 31 May 2026. Each figure is NHS England's own published median for the whole of rheumatology at that provider: a specialty average for every condition treated in that specialty, never a waiting time for one condition and never a prediction for one person.

  1. 1.Medway NHS Foundation Trust

    3,306 people on the list, 281 waiting over a year, 31.3% within 18 weeks.

    29.1 weeks

  2. 2.East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust

    3,105 people on the list, 44 waiting over a year, 42.1% within 18 weeks.

    22.3 weeks

  3. 3.Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

    1,435 people on the list, 127 waiting over a year, 42.1% within 18 weeks.

    21.8 weeks

  4. 4.University Hospitals Of Leicester NHS Trust

    4,210 people on the list, 47 waiting over a year, 45.8% within 18 weeks.

    20.2 weeks

  5. 5.Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

    973 people on the list, 5 waiting over a year, 47.8% within 18 weeks.

    18.8 weeks

  6. 6.United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

    1,762 people on the list, 104 waiting over a year, 48.6% within 18 weeks.

    18.8 weeks

  7. 7.County Durham And Darlington NHS Foundation Trust

    1,889 people on the list, 34 waiting over a year, 51.9% within 18 weeks.

    17.5 weeks

  8. 8.North Cheshire And Mersey NHS Foundation Trust

    1,257 people on the list, 5 waiting over a year, 50.9% within 18 weeks.

    17.5 weeks

  9. 9.Northern Lincolnshire And Goole NHS Foundation Trust

    1,011 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 51.2% within 18 weeks.

    17.5 weeks

  10. 10.Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

    1,243 people on the list, 67 waiting over a year, 51.6% within 18 weeks.

    17.4 weeks

  11. 11.Mid And South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

    2,441 people on the list, 229 waiting over a year, 54.1% within 18 weeks.

    16.5 weeks

  12. 12.North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

    1,357 people on the list, 1 waiting over a year, 54.8% within 18 weeks.

    16.1 weeks

  13. 13.East Suffolk And North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

    2,363 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 55.6% within 18 weeks.

    15.9 weeks

  14. 14.East And North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

    1,224 people on the list, 1 waiting over a year, 55.8% within 18 weeks.

    15.8 weeks

  15. 15.South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

    1,457 people on the list, 4 waiting over a year, 57.3% within 18 weeks.

    15.4 weeks

  16. 16.Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

    1,408 people on the list, 17 waiting over a year, 56.4% within 18 weeks.

    15.4 weeks

  17. 17.Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

    3,072 people on the list, 1 waiting over a year, 59.7% within 18 weeks.

    15.0 weeks

  18. 18.Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

    2,190 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 59.4% within 18 weeks.

    14.7 weeks

  19. 19.University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

    945 people on the list, 26 waiting over a year, 59.0% within 18 weeks.

    14.6 weeks

  20. 20.Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

    1,210 people on the list, 3 waiting over a year, 63.3% within 18 weeks.

    14.0 weeks

  21. 21.Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust

    533 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 68.9% within 18 weeks.

    13.7 weeks

  22. 22.Mersey And West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

    1,430 people on the list, 33 waiting over a year, 65.0% within 18 weeks.

    13.5 weeks

  23. 23.The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

    1,314 people on the list, 14 waiting over a year, 65.5% within 18 weeks.

    13.3 weeks

  24. 24.University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust

    1,179 people on the list, 4 waiting over a year, 64.0% within 18 weeks.

    13.2 weeks

  25. 25.Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

    1,260 people on the list, 2 waiting over a year, 62.7% within 18 weeks.

    13.2 weeks

  26. 26.Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

    1,055 people on the list, 1 waiting over a year, 64.4% within 18 weeks.

    12.9 weeks

  27. 27.Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

    2,203 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 66.0% within 18 weeks.

    12.8 weeks

  28. 28.Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

    823 people on the list, 1 waiting over a year, 59.3% within 18 weeks.

    12.6 weeks

  29. 29.North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust

    1,248 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 68.3% within 18 weeks.

    12.6 weeks

  30. 30.Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust

    908 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 66.3% within 18 weeks.

    12.5 weeks

  31. 31.North Bristol NHS Trust

    1,212 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 63.6% within 18 weeks.

    12.5 weeks

  32. 32.Norfolk And Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

    1,161 people on the list, 1 waiting over a year, 69.8% within 18 weeks.

    12.3 weeks

  33. 33.Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

    1,058 people on the list, 1 waiting over a year, 70.0% within 18 weeks.

    12.3 weeks

  34. 34.Croydon Health Services NHS Trust

    1,236 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 63.2% within 18 weeks.

    12.2 weeks

  35. 35.Lewisham And Greenwich NHS Trust

    692 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 83.7% within 18 weeks.

    12.2 weeks

  36. 36.Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust

    665 people on the list, 2 waiting over a year, 63.8% within 18 weeks.

    12.1 weeks

  37. 37.The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

    574 people on the list, 1 waiting over a year, 74.7% within 18 weeks.

    12.0 weeks

  38. 38.Doncaster And Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

    857 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 70.3% within 18 weeks.

    11.6 weeks

  39. 39.East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

    873 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 67.3% within 18 weeks.

    11.5 weeks

  40. 40.Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

    1,136 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 67.1% within 18 weeks.

    11.5 weeks

  41. 41.West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

    1,076 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 68.6% within 18 weeks.

    11.3 weeks

  42. 42.Surrey And Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

    802 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 74.1% within 18 weeks.

    11.3 weeks

  43. 43.Calderdale And Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

    1,074 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 74.7% within 18 weeks.

    11.2 weeks

  44. 44.The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust

    651 people on the list, 1 waiting over a year, 70.8% within 18 weeks.

    11.2 weeks

  45. 45.Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust

    1,468 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 69.1% within 18 weeks.

    11.1 weeks

  46. 46.Chelsea And Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

    1,287 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 76.2% within 18 weeks.

    11.1 weeks

  47. 47.Barking, Havering And Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

    1,048 people on the list, 4 waiting over a year, 82.3% within 18 weeks.

    10.7 weeks

  48. 48.University Hospitals Of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust

    959 people on the list, 8 waiting over a year, 75.1% within 18 weeks.

    10.4 weeks

  49. 49.St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

    1,330 people on the list, 15 waiting over a year, 73.7% within 18 weeks.

    10.2 weeks

  50. 50.Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust

    722 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 71.9% within 18 weeks.

    10.0 weeks

  51. 51.South Tyneside And Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust

    1,083 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 78.5% within 18 weeks.

    9.7 weeks

  52. 52.The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

    1,432 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 77.2% within 18 weeks.

    9.5 weeks

  53. 53.Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

    1,176 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 86.3% within 18 weeks.

    9.4 weeks

  54. 54.Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

    545 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 89.7% within 18 weeks.

    9.3 weeks

  55. 55.Wrightington, Wigan And Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

    839 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 81.2% within 18 weeks.

    9.2 weeks

  56. 56.North Tees And Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust

    573 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 86.2% within 18 weeks.

    9.2 weeks

  57. 57.University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust

    1,348 people on the list, 1 waiting over a year, 81.6% within 18 weeks.

    9.1 weeks

  58. 58.James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

    554 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 88.1% within 18 weeks.

    9.0 weeks

  59. 59.Barts Health NHS Trust

    1,194 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 83.3% within 18 weeks.

    8.8 weeks

  60. 60.Epsom And St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

    620 people on the list, 2 waiting over a year, 82.1% within 18 weeks.

    8.8 weeks

  61. 61.King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

    1,258 people on the list, 1 waiting over a year, 85.9% within 18 weeks.

    8.7 weeks

  62. 62.Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

    527 people on the list, 1 waiting over a year, 86.0% within 18 weeks.

    8.6 weeks

  63. 63.East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

    782 people on the list, 2 waiting over a year, 86.3% within 18 weeks.

    8.5 weeks

  64. 64.Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

    620 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 84.3% within 18 weeks.

    8.5 weeks

  65. 65.University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

    816 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 80.8% within 18 weeks.

    8.4 weeks

  66. 66.The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust

    851 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 89.1% within 18 weeks.

    8.3 weeks

  67. 67.Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

    721 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 87.0% within 18 weeks.

    8.1 weeks

  68. 68.West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

    728 people on the list, 1 waiting over a year, 92.7% within 18 weeks.

    8.0 weeks

  69. 69.Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

    1,060 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 87.9% within 18 weeks.

    7.9 weeks

  70. 70.York And Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

    686 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 81.9% within 18 weeks.

    7.6 weeks

  71. 71.Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

    693 people on the list, 1 waiting over a year, 87.5% within 18 weeks.

    7.4 weeks

  72. 72.Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

    1,847 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 85.7% within 18 weeks.

    7.1 weeks

  73. 73.Isle Of Wight NHS Trust

    611 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 77.7% within 18 weeks.

    7.1 weeks

  74. 74.Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

    1,289 people on the list, 1 waiting over a year, 88.8% within 18 weeks.

    7.0 weeks

  75. 75.Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

    4,553 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 85.0% within 18 weeks.

    7.0 weeks

  76. 76.University Hospitals Of Derby And Burton NHS Foundation Trust

    1,510 people on the list, 1 waiting over a year, 89.4% within 18 weeks.

    7.0 weeks

  77. 77.University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

    1,005 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 84.0% within 18 weeks.

    6.8 weeks

  78. 78.The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

    791 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 90.9% within 18 weeks.

    6.7 weeks

  79. 79.The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust

    737 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 95.8% within 18 weeks.

    6.7 weeks

  80. 80.The Robert Jones And Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

    595 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 95.3% within 18 weeks.

    6.5 weeks

  81. 81.Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

    1,062 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 91.3% within 18 weeks.

    6.1 weeks

  82. 82.Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

    644 people on the list, 1 waiting over a year, 91.8% within 18 weeks.

    5.8 weeks

  83. 83.Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust

    640 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 94.2% within 18 weeks.

    5.6 weeks

  84. 84.Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

    517 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 98.1% within 18 weeks.

    5.5 weeks

  85. 85.Sandwell And West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust

    532 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 92.3% within 18 weeks.

    5.4 weeks

  86. 86.University Hospitals Bristol And Weston NHS Foundation Trust

    626 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 92.2% within 18 weeks.

    5.3 weeks

  87. 87.University Hospitals Coventry And Warwickshire NHS Trust

    586 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 96.3% within 18 weeks.

    5.2 weeks

  88. 88.Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

    521 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 93.9% within 18 weeks.

    4.5 weeks

  89. 89.London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust

    862 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 96.4% within 18 weeks.

    4.5 weeks

Coverage: 119 NHS trusts reported rheumatology in this edition. 89 are ordered above. 2 have no median published by NHS England, and 28 report fewer pathways than the floor for comparison, so neither group is ordered here. They are listed with their published figures on the provider index.

This comparison describes NHS trusts only. Only providers with 500 or more incomplete pathways and a published median are compared.

Rheumatology, independent-sector providers, longest published median first

May 2026 data, as of 31 May 2026. Each figure is NHS England's own published median for the whole of rheumatology at that provider: a specialty average for every condition treated in that specialty, never a waiting time for one condition and never a prediction for one person.

  1. 1.Cora Health Msk (Formerly Connect Health Ltd)

    1,065 people on the list, 0 waiting over a year, 90.5% within 18 weeks.

    4.6 weeks

Coverage: 12 independent-sector providers reported rheumatology in this edition. 1 are ordered above. 4 have no median published by NHS England, and 7 report fewer pathways than the floor for comparison, so neither group is ordered here. They are listed with their published figures on the provider index.

This comparison describes independent-sector providers only. Only providers with 500 or more incomplete pathways and a published median are compared.

How this page is built

Scope: NHS England's Consultant-led Referral to Treatment Waiting Times, Incomplete Pathways by Provider, treatment function C_410, Rheumatology. The edition shown is May 2026 data, as of 31 May 2026, frozen at a dated URL on ingest.

Method: the ordering uses NHS England's own published median column. Nothing is recomputed or estimated. NHS trusts and independent-sector providers are ordered in separate tables because they are published separately and are not comparable with one another. A provider appears in a table only where a median is published for it and it reports at least the pathway floor carried in the edition.

Limits: a median is a specialty average across every condition treated in rheumatology, so it describes neither one condition nor one person, and it is not a prediction of how long any individual will wait. The bars redraw the same published medians as a share of the longest median in the same table. English providers only.

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NHS England rheumatology waiting times, May 2026 data, as of 31 May 2026.

89 NHS trusts ordered by published median wait, longest first.

Longest published median 29.1 weeks at Medway NHS Foundation Trust. Shortest published median 4.5 weeks at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust. That is a spread of 6.5x.

Each figure is a rheumatology specialty average for that provider, not a waiting time for one condition or one person. This comparison describes NHS trusts only. Only providers with 500 or more incomplete pathways and a published median are compared.

Source: NHS England, Consultant-led Referral to Treatment Waiting Times. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Source: NHS England, Incomplete Pathways by Provider. Source: NHS England, Consultant-led Referral to Treatment Waiting Times. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.