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

At the end of August 2026, 2,174 people were on the Neurology at The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (79%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
2,174
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
79.1%
England: 62.3%
Over 52 weeks
8
Median wait
10 wks
Published median for this list

8 people (0.4%, roughly 1 in 250) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 16.8 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 2.5% of everyone waiting at The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance deteriorated

Published 18-week performance for Neurology at this organisation has deteriorated over the past 12 months: 79.1% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 85.1% 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
79.1%
3 months earlier · May 2026
84.3% then · change to latest -5.2 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
88.5% then · change to latest -9.4 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
85.1% then · change to latest -6.1 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
87.8% then · change to latest -8.7 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202679.1%2,174
July 202682.8%2,071
June 202685.1%2,007
May 202684.3%1,963
April 202683.2%1,832
March 202685.5%1,713
February 202688.5%1,777
January 202688.4%1,883
December 202582.4%1,954
November 202584.2%1,909
October 202586%1,808
September 202585%1,703
August 202585.1%1,703
July 202586.4%1,750
June 202585.6%1,797
May 202587.3%1,834
April 202588.7%1,901
March 202592.1%1,897
February 202591.7%1,907
January 202591.5%1,975
December 202491%1,974
November 202490.4%1,935
October 202492.2%1,934
September 202491.5%1,888
August 202492%1,857
July 202491.9%1,927
June 202485.9%1,885
May 202490.6%1,780
April 202487.8%1,763
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 neurology 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 Neurology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust10.1 mi1,62380%+0.5 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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