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General surgery waiting times at South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 4,478 people were on the General surgery at South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (83%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · General surgery across England

People waiting
4,478
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
83.3%
England: 63%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
7 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 20.3 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 7.5% of everyone waiting at South Tyneside and Sunderland 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 6.3 percentage points (77% to 83%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 2.9 points over 3 months (80.4% in March 2026); up 5.8 points over 6 months (77.5% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +6.3 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 202577%
August 202576.3%
September 202578.2%
October 202577.1%
November 202576.1%
December 202577.5%
January 202677.1%
February 202678.2%
March 202680.4%
April 202681%
May 202682.4%
June 202683.3%

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 surgery figures at South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20255,47677.0%0
August 20255,61176.3%0
September 20255,51478.2%1
October 20255,26177.1%0
November 20254,86776.1%0
December 20254,72577.5%0
January 20264,55777.1%0
February 20264,48278.2%0
March 20264,50680.4%0
April 20264,49881.0%0
May 20264,37582.4%0
June 20264,47883.3%0

Other NHS trusts offering general surgery 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 surgery
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust7.2 mi2,29992%+8.4 pp
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust8.8 mi6,52093%+9.3 pp
The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust10.1 mi94574%-9.4 pp
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust15.6 mi2,68460%-23.8 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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