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Respiratory medicine waiting times at The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 868 people were on the Respiratory medicine at The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 9 in 10 people (95%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
868
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
94.8%
England: 74.1%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
5 wks
Published median for this list

No one on this list had been waiting more than 52 weeks in August 2026.

This hospital's published position is 20.7 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 1% of everyone waiting at The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance improved

Published 18-week performance for Respiratory medicine at this organisation has improved over the past 12 months: 94.8% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 87.6% 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
94.8%
3 months earlier · May 2026
91.6% then · change to latest +3.2 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
86.7% then · change to latest +8.1 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
87.6% then · change to latest +7.2 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
71.5% then · change to latest +23.3 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202694.8%868
July 202693.6%862
June 202694%830
May 202691.6%927
April 202689.8%901
March 202689.9%950
February 202686.7%943
January 202686.6%977
December 202587.3%1,084
November 202585.3%1,085
October 202588.2%1,187
September 202585.7%1,161
August 202587.6%1,237
July 202588.3%1,257
June 202587.1%1,251
May 202586.1%1,206
April 202586.1%1,419
March 202584.7%1,496
February 202577.1%1,458
January 202579.3%1,549
December 202477.7%1,581
November 202474.9%1,689
October 202476.3%1,711
September 202471.4%1,621
August 202473.4%1,712
July 202472.2%1,728
June 202471.1%1,706
May 202473.2%1,572
April 202471.5%1,543
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 respiratory medicine 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 Respiratory medicine
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust4.4 mi26287%-8.2 pp
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust5.2 mi2,78193%-1.8 pp
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust10.1 mi2,63476%-18.9 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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