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North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of June 2026, 23,080 people were on the North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust all-services waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (72%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · North East · ODS code RVW

People waiting (all services)
23,080
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
71.5%
England: 65.8%
Over 52 weeks
230
Services reported
10
with people currently waiting

230 people (1.0%, roughly 1 in 100) 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 North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Orthopaedics6,72486%60.6%16+6.8 pp
Gynaecology2,91554%61.0%71-2.8 pp
General surgery2,68460%63.0%49-5.1 pp
Urology2,14568%65.0%47-2.8 pp
Gastroenterology1,21879%69.3%3-4.8 pp
Respiratory medicine72868%74.8%8+0.2 pp
Cardiology69385%68.2%0+5.2 pp
Rheumatology55282%70.8%0+2.5 pp
General medicine26297%71.4%0-0.2 pp
Elderly medicine19491%83.1%0-3.6 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people waiting at North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 2.7 percentage points (74% to 72%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (70.6% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (71.3% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -2.7 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 202574.2%
August 202572.7%
September 202573.3%
October 202573.8%
November 202572.8%
December 202571.3%
January 202670.7%
February 202670.1%
March 202670.6%
April 202672.4%
May 202672.3%
June 202671.5%

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 North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202521,23274.2%199
August 202520,92272.7%157
September 202521,49173.3%160
October 202522,29373.8%191
November 202521,99172.8%182
December 202522,05971.3%220
January 202621,89970.7%250
February 202622,14270.1%250
March 202621,53470.6%212
April 202622,57372.4%212
May 202622,87372.3%216
June 202623,08071.5%230

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.

Waiting times across this area

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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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