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General surgery waiting times at Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 2,299 people were on the General surgery at Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 9 in 10 people (92%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · General surgery across England

People waiting
2,299
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
91.7%
England: 63%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
6 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 28.7 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 20% of everyone waiting at Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 10.7 percentage points (81% to 92%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 2.2 points over 3 months (93.9% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (91.7% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +10.7 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 202581%
August 202583.6%
September 202585%
October 202586.2%
November 202589.9%
December 202591.7%
January 202691.3%
February 202692.7%
March 202693.9%
April 202692.3%
May 202692.1%
June 202691.7%

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 General surgery figures at Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20252,38481.0%0
August 20252,11583.6%0
September 20252,06285.0%0
October 20252,16386.2%0
November 20252,13389.9%0
December 20252,14491.7%0
January 20262,25291.3%0
February 20262,13392.7%0
March 20262,31093.9%0
April 20262,29192.3%0
May 20262,37192.1%0
June 20262,29991.7%0

Other NHS trusts offering general surgery 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 General surgery
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust4.4 mi94574%-17.8 pp
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust7.2 mi4,47883%-8.4 pp
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust7.4 mi6,52093%+0.9 pp
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust21.6 mi2,68460%-32.1 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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