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

At the end of June 2026, 830 people were on the Respiratory medicine at The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 9 in 10 people (94%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
830
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
94.0%
England: 74.8%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
6 wks
Published median for this list

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

This hospital's published position is 19.2 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 this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 5.7 percentage points (88% to 94%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 4.1 points over 3 months (89.9% in March 2026); up 6.7 points over 6 months (87.3% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +5.7 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 202588.3%
August 202587.6%
September 202585.7%
October 202588.2%
November 202585.3%
December 202587.3%
January 202686.6%
February 202686.7%
March 202689.9%
April 202689.8%
May 202691.6%
June 202694%

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 Respiratory medicine figures at The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20251,25788.3%2
August 20251,23787.6%0
September 20251,16185.7%0
October 20251,18788.2%0
November 20251,08585.3%0
December 20251,08487.3%0
January 202697786.6%1
February 202694386.7%2
March 202695089.9%1
April 202690189.8%0
May 202692791.6%0
June 202683094.0%0

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 mi35488%-6.1 pp
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust5.2 mi2,82095%+1.3 pp
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust10.1 mi2,73577%-16.5 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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