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Elderly medicine waiting times at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 590 people were on the Elderly medicine at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and more than 9 in 10 people (100%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Elderly medicine across England

People waiting
590
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
99.7%
England: 84.3%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
6 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 15.4 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 1.5% of everyone waiting at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance broadly stable

Published 18-week performance for Elderly medicine at this organisation has been broadly stable over the past 12 months (a change of under 3 percentage points): 99.7% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 99.6% 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
99.7%
3 months earlier · May 2026
99.2% then · change to latest +0.4 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
99.7% then · change to latest 0 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
99.6% then · change to latest 0 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
92.9% then · change to latest +6.8 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202699.7%590
July 202699.5%666
June 202699.8%640
May 202699.2%658
April 202699.4%669
March 202699.4%654
February 202699.7%572
January 202699.3%570
December 202599.4%522
November 202599.4%488
October 2025100%505
September 202599.8%537
August 202599.6%534
July 2025100%495
June 202599.4%469
May 202599.2%480
April 202599.6%490
March 202599.2%506
February 202599.4%481
January 202598.6%483
December 202498.1%586
November 202498.3%653
October 202498.5%747
September 202499%886
August 202498.9%900
July 202499.1%823
June 202497.9%794
May 202496.7%792
April 202492.9%733
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 elderly 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 Elderly medicine
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust5.2 mi22596%-3.2 pp
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust7.4 mi19197%-2.3 pp
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust8.8 mi1,01587%-13.1 pp
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust24.3 mi17991%-8.6 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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