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Rheumatology waiting times at County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 2,008 people were on the Rheumatology at County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (48%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
2,008
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
48.2%
England: 70.8%
Over 52 weeks
44
Median wait
19 wks
Published median for this list

44 people (2.2%, roughly 1 in 45) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 22.6 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 3.8% 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 18.3 percentage points (67% to 48%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 3.4 points over 3 months (51.6% in March 2026); down 10.2 points over 6 months (58.4% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -18.3 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 202566.5%
August 202560.2%
September 202560%
October 202556.7%
November 202557.9%
December 202558.4%
January 202655.1%
February 202654%
March 202651.6%
April 202651.3%
May 202651.9%
June 202648.2%

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 Rheumatology figures at County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202574966.5%1
August 202575160.2%1
September 202576360.0%0
October 202573256.7%0
November 202572957.9%3
December 202576258.4%1
January 202680155.1%2
February 202682954.0%3
March 202684151.6%1
April 20261,80751.3%16
May 20261,88951.9%34
June 20262,00848.2%44

Other NHS trusts offering rheumatology 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 Rheumatology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust14.1 mi1,43059%+10.5 pp
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust17.9 mi55282%+33.9 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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