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

At the end of June 2026, 7,773 people were on the Orthopaedics at The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (62%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
7,773
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
62.4%
England: 60.6%
Over 52 weeks
264
Median wait
13 wks
Published median for this list

264 people (3.4%, roughly 1 in 29) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is broadly in line with the England picture 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 8.9% of everyone waiting at The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 3.5 percentage points (66% to 62%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 4.1 points over 3 months (58.3% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (61.4% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -3.5 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 202565.9%
August 202564.8%
September 202565%
October 202563.3%
November 202562.2%
December 202561.4%
January 202660.2%
February 202658.2%
March 202658.3%
April 202658.5%
May 202659.3%
June 202662.4%

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 Orthopaedics figures at The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20257,92265.9%210
August 20257,84764.8%231
September 20257,85265.0%242
October 20257,89763.3%237
November 20258,00762.2%268
December 20257,92961.4%256
January 20267,83860.2%289
February 20267,42458.2%232
March 20267,43758.3%189
April 20267,49058.5%213
May 20267,61659.3%270
June 20267,77362.4%264

Other NHS trusts offering orthopaedics 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 Orthopaedics
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust4.4 mi1,68260%-2.2 pp
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust5.2 mi10,39971%+8.1 pp
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust10.1 mi8,46458%-4.3 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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