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

At the end of June 2026, 742 people were on the Rheumatology at The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 9 in 10 people (93%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
742
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
92.6%
England: 70.8%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
8 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 21.8 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 0.9% 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 improved by 15.3 percentage points (77% to 93%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 2.7 points over 3 months (89.9% in March 2026); up 6.8 points over 6 months (85.8% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +15.3 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 202577.3%
August 202579.5%
September 202582.7%
October 202584.7%
November 202584.9%
December 202585.8%
January 202685.7%
February 202687.9%
March 202689.9%
April 202688.2%
May 202690.9%
June 202692.6%

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 Rheumatology figures at The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202580177.3%0
August 202576979.5%0
September 202572282.7%0
October 202570484.7%0
November 202571484.9%0
December 202561985.8%0
January 202665785.7%0
February 202667887.9%0
March 202661389.9%0
April 202670188.2%0
May 202679190.9%0
June 202674292.6%0

Other NHS trusts offering rheumatology 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 Rheumatology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust4.4 mi39485%-7.3 pp
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust5.2 mi1,16485%-8 pp
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust10.1 mi1,05879%-13.6 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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