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Dermatology waiting times at County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 5,566 people were on the Dermatology at County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (53%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Dermatology across England

People waiting
5,566
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
52.8%
England: 69%
Over 52 weeks
349
Median wait
17 wks
Published median for this list

349 people (6.3%, roughly 1 in 16) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 16.2 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 10.4% of everyone waiting at County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 11.3 percentage points (64% to 53%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 8.6 points over 3 months (61.4% in March 2026); down 4.5 points over 6 months (57.3% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -11.3 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 202564.1%
August 202562.7%
September 202561.7%
October 202559.2%
November 202558%
December 202557.3%
January 202658.3%
February 202659.4%
March 202661.4%
April 202649.2%
May 202652.8%
June 202652.8%

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 Dermatology figures at County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20253,65064.1%49
August 20253,57462.7%73
September 20253,59761.7%98
October 20253,64959.2%130
November 20253,56658.0%166
December 20253,60557.3%226
January 20263,62758.3%269
February 20263,60059.4%230
March 20263,56261.4%89
April 20265,60449.2%298
May 20265,16352.8%288
June 20265,56652.8%349

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
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust14.1 mi2,90764%+10.9 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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