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Orthopaedics waiting times at County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 10,579 people were on the Orthopaedics at County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (74%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
10,579
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
74.3%
England: 60.6%
Over 52 weeks
108
Median wait
10 wks
Published median for this list

108 people (1.0%, roughly 1 in 100) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 13.7 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 19.8% 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 worsened by 12.2 percentage points (87% to 74%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 2.9 points over 3 months (77.2% in March 2026); down 9.4 points over 6 months (83.7% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -12.2 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 202586.5%
August 202587%
September 202587.7%
October 202586.1%
November 202584.7%
December 202583.7%
January 202681.2%
February 202677.4%
March 202677.2%
April 202678.7%
May 202678.2%
June 202674.3%

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 Orthopaedics figures at County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20259,29986.5%30
August 20259,94687.0%24
September 202510,55687.7%20
October 202510,42286.1%31
November 20259,55584.7%24
December 20259,35383.7%14
January 20269,02881.2%19
February 20268,86877.4%18
March 20269,44877.2%17
April 202610,69378.7%26
May 202610,98578.2%58
June 202610,57974.3%108

Other NHS trusts offering orthopaedics 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 Orthopaedics
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust14.1 mi5,55969%-5.7 pp
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust17.9 mi6,72486%+11.7 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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