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Cardiology waiting times at North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 668 people were on the Cardiology at North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (83%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Cardiology across England

People waiting
668
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
83.2%
England: 67.9%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
8 wks
Published median for this list

No one on this list had been waiting more than 52 weeks in August 2026.

This hospital's published position is 15.3 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 2.8% of everyone waiting at North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

Cardiology, NHS England Referral to Treatment figures, April 2024 to August 2026.

18-week performance improved

Published 18-week performance for Cardiology at this organisation has improved over the past 12 months: 83.2% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 79.3% at the end of August 2025.

Share of people on the waiting list who had been waiting under 18 weeks, at the end of each month. Scale runs from 0% to 100%.
Latest · August 2026
83.2%
3 months earlier · May 2026
84.9% then · change to latest -1.6 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
79.7% then · change to latest +3.5 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
79.3% then · change to latest +3.9 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
87.9% then · change to latest -4.7 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202683.2%668
July 202683.5%638
June 202684.6%693
May 202684.9%635
April 202684.3%630
March 202682.7%655
February 202679.7%699
January 202677.9%729
December 202579.4%718
November 202579.4%737
October 202577.6%803
September 202581%820
August 202579.3%705
July 202582.1%748
June 202580.7%804
May 202582.2%738
April 202585.3%735
March 202588.2%644
February 202588.5%668
January 202589%656
December 202483.3%678
November 202483.1%652
October 202483%629
September 202484.3%657
August 202485.9%626
July 202487.9%602
June 202488.8%598
May 202486.3%576
April 202487.9%522
How we calculate change
  • Each month's figure is the number of people waiting under 18 weeks divided by everyone on the waiting list, from NHS England's published monthly files.
  • Changes compare the latest month with exactly 3, 6 and 12 months earlier, only where both months are published and the list has at least 50 people.
  • The 12-month label is "improved" or "deteriorated" only if the share moved by 3 percentage points or more; smaller moves are called "broadly stable".
  • Where NHS England reissued a month's file, we use the revised file. Months we do not have are left as gaps and never estimated.
  • Earlier months come from our archive of NHS England's published files and are checked against our current figures wherever both exist.

What these figures cannot tell you

  • These are whole-list figures for one specialty at one organisation. They describe the published waiting list, not how long any one person will wait.
  • This specialty covers many conditions and treatments. These figures are not specific to any one operation or condition.
  • Figures are published for the whole organisation, which may run several hospital sites. They do not show the position at any single site.
  • Patients are prioritised by clinical need, so people on the same list can wait very different times.
  • A higher share within 18 weeks is not a measure of the quality of care.

Other NHS trusts offering cardiology 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 Cardiology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust10.4 mi2,15174%-8.9 pp
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust15.6 mi2,45184%+1.2 pp
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust17.9 mi1,35785%+2 pp
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust21.6 mi70166%-16.9 pp
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust24.3 mi1,61697%+14 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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