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Respiratory medicine waiting times at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 1,055 people were on the Respiratory medicine at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (83%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Respiratory medicine across England

People waiting
1,055
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
82.6%
England: 74.1%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
10 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 8.5 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 1.8% of everyone waiting at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance deteriorated

Published 18-week performance for Respiratory medicine at this organisation has deteriorated over the past 12 months: 82.6% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 88% 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
82.6%
3 months earlier · May 2026
90.7% then · change to latest -8.2 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
90.9% then · change to latest -8.3 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
88% then · change to latest -5.4 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
91.6% then · change to latest -9.1 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202682.6%1,055
July 202685%1,071
June 202689.1%1,012
May 202690.7%1,012
April 202692.1%1,011
March 202689.6%893
February 202690.9%954
January 202685.5%925
December 202585.2%961
November 202590.7%900
October 202591.2%868
September 202589.5%875
August 202588%833
July 202587.9%912
June 202588.1%839
May 202587.2%854
April 202584.5%973
March 202578.3%1,086
February 202579.1%1,146
January 202578%1,125
December 202475.8%1,105
November 202480.4%1,130
October 202478.2%1,177
September 202481.3%1,078
August 202482.9%1,115
July 202486.9%1,118
June 202484.9%1,050
May 202490.9%944
April 202491.6%944
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 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
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust10.4 mi74361%-21.6 pp
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust14.1 mi1,51664%-18.8 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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