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Elderly medicine waiting times at County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 405 people were on the Elderly medicine at County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 9 in 10 people (94%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Elderly medicine across England

People waiting
405
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
93.6%
England: 83.1%
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 10.5 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 0.8% 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 stayed broadly stable (94% to 94%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 5.7 points over 3 months (87.9% in March 2026); up 4.7 points over 6 months (88.9% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Broadly stable · -0.3 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 202593.9%
August 202594.8%
September 202593%
October 202591.1%
November 202589.6%
December 202588.9%
January 202685.9%
February 202683.9%
March 202687.9%
April 202688.8%
May 202688.7%
June 202693.6%

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 Elderly medicine figures at County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202537993.9%0
August 202540094.8%0
September 202541793.0%0
October 202543991.1%0
November 202543489.6%0
December 202542388.9%0
January 202644085.9%0
February 202641083.9%0
March 202642087.9%0
April 202640988.8%0
May 202639088.7%0
June 202640593.6%0

Other NHS trusts offering elderly medicine 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 Elderly medicine
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust14.1 mi50100%+6.4 pp
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust17.9 mi19491%-2.3 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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