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Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of June 2026, 11,492 people were on the Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust all-services waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (78%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · North East · ODS code RR7

People waiting (all services)
11,492
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
78.2%
England: 65.8%
Over 52 weeks
2
Services reported
10
with people currently waiting

2 people (0.0%) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

Figures are for the whole organisation (trust level), not for an individual hospital site or clinic. The all-services total is the published organisation total, not a sum of the service rows.

Waiting times by service

Each row is one consultant-led service at this organisation, compared with the England figure for the same service in the same month.

Services at Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
General surgery2,29992%63.0%00 pp
Gynaecology2,09865%61.0%0+4.1 pp
Orthopaedics1,68260%60.6%0+4 pp
Gastroenterology80794%69.3%0+24 pp
Cardiology75771%68.2%0+6.6 pp
Urology73669%65.0%2+15.4 pp
Rheumatology39485%70.8%0+21 pp
Respiratory medicine35488%74.8%0+22.7 pp
Elderly medicine21195%83.1%0+3.1 pp
General medicine3580%71.4%0-2.6 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people waiting at Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust waiting under 18 weeks improved by 9.6 percentage points (69% to 78%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (77.5% in March 2026); up 8.1 points over 6 months (70.1% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +9.6 points

Percentage of people seen within 18 weeks, over the last 12 published months.

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Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202568.6%
August 202567.4%
September 202568.3%
October 202567.9%
November 202569.5%
December 202570.1%
January 202671.4%
February 202671.6%
March 202677.5%
April 202676.4%
May 202678.4%
June 202678.2%

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 all-services figures for Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202513,34568.6%35
August 202513,53367.4%55
September 202513,39968.3%52
October 202513,22567.9%41
November 202512,75569.5%33
December 202512,52170.1%25
January 202612,57871.4%20
February 202612,30771.6%26
March 202611,57277.5%17
April 202611,81276.4%9
May 202611,89078.4%8
June 202611,49278.2%2

Diagnostic tests

Tests are measured against a separate six-week standard. Figures for June 2026.

Nearby NHS trusts

Trusts within 25 miles that report waiting figures. Distances are between registered addresses, not travel time.

Contact details we hold for this organisation

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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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