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

At the end of June 2026, 728 people were on the Respiratory medicine at North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (68%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
728
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
68.3%
England: 74.8%
Over 52 weeks
8
Median wait
12 wks
Published median for this list

8 people (1.1%, roughly 1 in 91) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 6.5 percentage points behind 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 3.2% 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 stayed broadly stable (70% to 68%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (68.8% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (68.1% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Broadly stable · -1.2 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 202569.5%
August 202566%
September 202565.8%
October 202570.1%
November 202568.2%
December 202568.1%
January 202667.5%
February 202667.8%
March 202668.8%
April 202672%
May 202671.6%
June 202668.3%

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 Respiratory medicine figures at North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202573469.5%2
August 202575066.0%5
September 202570165.8%3
October 202571670.1%0
November 202569868.2%1
December 202566468.1%2
January 202660467.5%1
February 202664667.8%0
March 202668668.8%1
April 202678172.0%4
May 202675771.6%6
June 202672868.3%8

Other NHS trusts offering respiratory 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 Respiratory medicine
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust10.4 mi1,01289%+20.9 pp
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust15.6 mi2,73577%+9.2 pp
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust17.9 mi1,53464%-4.2 pp
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust21.6 mi35488%+19.6 pp
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust24.3 mi2,82095%+27 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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