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Cardiology waiting times at The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 2,842 people were on the Cardiology at The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (76%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Cardiology across England

People waiting
2,842
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
75.6%
England: 67.9%
Over 52 weeks
53
Median wait
11 wks
Published median for this list

53 people (1.9%, roughly 1 in 53) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 7.7 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 3.2% of everyone waiting at The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance deteriorated

Published 18-week performance for Cardiology at this organisation has deteriorated over the past 12 months: 75.6% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 82.2% 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
75.6%
3 months earlier · May 2026
76.5% then · change to latest -0.9 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
77.7% then · change to latest -2.1 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
82.2% then · change to latest -6.6 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
83% then · change to latest -7.4 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202675.6%2,842
July 202677.2%2,880
June 202676.7%2,799
May 202676.5%2,777
April 202676.8%2,871
March 202677.5%2,735
February 202677.7%2,900
January 202679.3%3,291
December 202578.7%3,145
November 202579%3,252
October 202583%3,465
September 202582.5%2,949
August 202582.2%3,003
July 202579.8%3,073
June 202578.1%3,463
May 202579.6%3,764
April 202584.8%5,180
March 202587.2%5,222
February 202586%5,254
January 202587.9%5,156
December 202487.6%4,919
November 202486.4%4,513
October 202486.8%4,238
September 202486.6%3,991
August 202487.6%4,126
July 202488.4%4,009
June 202485.6%3,801
May 202483.4%3,775
April 202483%3,835
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 cardiology 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 Cardiology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust4.4 mi70166%-9.2 pp
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust5.2 mi1,61697%+21.7 pp
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust10.1 mi2,45184%+8.8 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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