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General medicine waiting times at North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 262 people were on the General medicine at North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and more than 9 in 10 people (97%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · General medicine across England

People waiting
262
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
97.3%
England: 71.4%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
5 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 25.9 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 1.1% of everyone waiting at North Tees and Hartlepool 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 2 percentage points (95% to 97%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (97.4% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (97.5% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +2 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 202595.3%
August 202592.7%
September 202593.8%
October 202596.9%
November 202596.6%
December 202597.5%
January 202695.5%
February 202695%
March 202697.4%
April 202697.7%
May 202697.3%
June 202697.3%

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 medicine figures at North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202521195.3%0
August 202519192.7%0
September 202519493.8%0
October 202522596.9%0
November 202523796.6%0
December 202523897.5%0
January 202620295.5%0
February 202618095.0%0
March 202619697.4%0
April 202622297.7%0
May 202622197.3%0
June 202626297.3%0

Other NHS trusts offering general medicine 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 medicine
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust10.4 mi9993%-4.4 pp
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust17.9 mi1,92867%-30.5 pp
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust21.6 mi3580%-17.3 pp
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust24.3 mi1,559100%+2.7 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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