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Rheumatology waiting times at North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 552 people were on the Rheumatology at North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (82%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
552
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
82.1%
England: 70.8%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
11 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 11.3 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 2.4% 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 (82% to 82%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 2.4 points over 3 months (84.5% in March 2026); up 2.5 points over 6 months (79.6% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Broadly stable · -0.1 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 202582.2%
August 202577.2%
September 202579.9%
October 202584.1%
November 202582.6%
December 202579.6%
January 202684.2%
February 202684%
March 202684.5%
April 202684.5%
May 202686.2%
June 202682.1%

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 Rheumatology figures at North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202559582.2%0
August 202558777.2%0
September 202550879.9%0
October 202559784.1%0
November 202556282.6%0
December 202551579.6%0
January 202651484.2%0
February 202653184.0%0
March 202647684.5%0
April 202649784.5%0
May 202657386.2%0
June 202655282.1%0

Other NHS trusts offering rheumatology 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 Rheumatology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust10.4 mi1,43059%-23.3 pp
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust15.6 mi1,05879%-3 pp
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust17.9 mi2,00848%-33.9 pp
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust21.6 mi39485%+3.2 pp
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust24.3 mi1,16485%+2.5 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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