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The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of June 2026, 86,942 people were on the The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust all-services waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (75%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · North East · ODS code RTD

People waiting (all services)
86,942
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
74.6%
England: 65.8%
Over 52 weeks
703
Services reported
18
with people currently waiting

703 people (0.8%, roughly 1 in 125) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

Figures are for the whole organisation (trust level), not for an individual hospital site or clinic. The all-services total is the published organisation total, not a sum of the service rows.

Waiting times by service

Each row is one consultant-led service at this organisation, compared with the England figure for the same service in the same month.

Services at The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Ophthalmology9,77881%73.8%115-0.8 pp
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)8,70679%59.0%10+8.6 pp
Dermatology8,65768%69.0%2+3.2 pp
Orthopaedics7,77362%60.6%264+0.9 pp
Gynaecology3,64888%61.0%15+12.2 pp
Urology3,23066%65.0%17-0.5 pp
Cardiology2,79977%68.2%39-2 pp
Oral surgery2,42272%55.0%0-3.7 pp
Neurology2,00785%61.7%2+2.6 pp
Plastic surgery1,49763%59.3%17-0.2 pp
Neurosurgery1,35571%62.8%23-0.1 pp
Gastroenterology95290%69.3%3+1.9 pp
General surgery94574%63.0%25-6.6 pp
General medicine92184%71.4%0-1.5 pp
Respiratory medicine83094%74.8%0+6.7 pp
Rheumatology74293%70.8%0+6.8 pp
Elderly medicine21898%83.1%0+1.7 pp
Cardiothoracic surgery9347%72.8%6-12.1 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people waiting at The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting under 18 weeks stayed broadly stable (74% to 75%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 2.1 points over 3 months (72.5% in March 2026); up 3.2 points over 6 months (71.4% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Broadly stable · +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 202573.6%
August 202572.7%
September 202573.2%
October 202573.5%
November 202572.1%
December 202571.4%
January 202671%
February 202671%
March 202672.5%
April 202672.3%
May 202673.5%
June 202674.6%

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 all-services figures for The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202588,21173.6%1,275
August 202588,67572.7%1,245
September 202587,66673.2%1,131
October 202589,29473.5%1,012
November 202586,57572.1%966
December 202585,55271.4%893
January 202683,92971.0%930
February 202682,02171.0%777
March 202681,30172.5%579
April 202683,20772.3%616
May 202686,19773.5%693
June 202686,94274.6%703

Diagnostic tests

Tests are measured against a separate six-week standard. Figures for June 2026.

Nearby NHS trusts

Trusts within 25 miles that report waiting figures. Distances are between registered addresses, not travel time.

Contact details we hold for this organisation

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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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