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Plastic surgery waiting times at The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 1,335 people were on the Plastic surgery at The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (69%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
1,335
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
68.9%
England: 59.4%
Over 52 weeks
5
Median wait
10 wks
Published median for this list

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

This hospital's published position is 9.5 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 1.5% of everyone waiting at The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance improved

Published 18-week performance for Plastic surgery at this organisation has improved over the past 12 months: 68.9% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 63.8% 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
68.9%
3 months earlier · May 2026
59.7% then · change to latest +9.2 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
61.6% then · change to latest +7.3 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
63.8% then · change to latest +5.1 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
64.6% then · change to latest +4.4 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202668.9%1,335
July 202665.3%1,401
June 202662.7%1,497
May 202659.7%1,585
April 202661%1,683
March 202663%1,864
February 202661.6%1,892
January 202662.7%1,878
December 202562.9%1,823
November 202564.7%1,848
October 202565.2%1,926
September 202564.9%1,943
August 202563.8%1,887
July 202561.6%1,827
June 202561.7%1,799
May 202563%1,745
April 202563.7%1,862
March 202567.3%1,986
February 202567.7%1,959
January 202569.8%1,926
December 202468.6%1,875
November 202470.6%1,997
October 202471.7%1,929
September 202471.1%1,887
August 202467.8%1,860
July 202469.6%1,841
June 202468.9%1,777
May 202466.4%1,715
April 202464.6%1,820
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 plastic 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 Plastic surgery
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust5.2 mi3,26079%+10.1 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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