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NHS waiting times near Middlesbrough

3 NHS trusts within 15 miles of Middlesbrough city centre reported referral-to-treatment figures for August 2026.

NHS trusts with data
3
People waiting (combined)
136,931
Sum of published trust totals
Best-performing trust
69.6%
share under 18 weeks
Lowest
64.2%
share under 18 weeks

Trusts compared

Sorted by straight-line distance from a reference point in central Middlesbrough (not an administrative boundary; distances are between registered addresses, not travel time). All-services figures hide large differences between individual services, so open a trust to see service-level figures.

NHS trusts near Middlesbrough
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeksTests over 6 wks
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust1.7 mi58,45866%73015.9%
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust8.9 mi24,06370%2252.2%
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust13.5 mi54,41064%1,41018.0%

A further 8 NHS-funded independent-sector and other providers in this area are not listed because their case mix makes direct comparison misleading.

Services where local trusts differ most

Gap in the share waiting under 18 weeks between the highest and lowest trust here, for services with at least 200 people waiting.

  • Rheumatology · 3 trusts · England 70.4%

    North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust: 82.2% — County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust: 44.6% (gap 37.7 pp)

  • Gastroenterology · 3 trusts · England 69.7%

    South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 94.2% — County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust: 57.1% (gap 37.1 pp)

  • General medicine · 2 trusts · England 72.3%

    North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust: 95.8% — County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust: 62.7% (gap 33.1 pp)

  • Respiratory medicine · 3 trusts · England 74.1%

    South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 82.6% — North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust: 61.0% (gap 21.6 pp)

  • Orthopaedics · 3 trusts · England 60.9%

    North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust: 85.1% — South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 67.5% (gap 17.6 pp)

  • Ear, nose and throat (ENT) · 2 trusts · England 56.8%

    County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust: 70.2% — South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 54.9% (gap 15.3 pp)

  • Ophthalmology · 2 trusts · England 72.2%

    South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 78.6% — County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust: 66.7% (gap 11.8 pp)

  • Cardiology · 3 trusts · England 67.9%

    County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust: 85.2% — South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 74.4% (gap 10.8 pp)

How 18-week performance changed over 12 months

Of the 33 hospital-and-specialty pages for NHS trusts within 15 miles of Middlesbrough with enough comparable published history (3 organisations), these are the 12-month changes in the share of each waiting list waiting under 18 weeks, August 2025 to August 2026:

  • 16 of 3318-week performance improved by 3 or more percentage points
  • 4 of 3318-week performance broadly stable (change under 3 percentage points)
  • 13 of 3318-week performance deteriorated by 3 or more percentage points

These are counts of provider-and-specialty pages, not people. A large and a small waiting list each count once, so the counts describe how many published lists moved in each direction, not how waits changed for patients in general. They do not predict any individual wait and say nothing about quality of care. Figures are for whole trusts or providers, not individual hospital sites. Lists are alphabetical, not ranked.

18-week performance improved by 3 or more percentage points (16 pages, first 5 A–Z)

11 more in this group. Every hospital page is listed in the hospital trust directory.

18-week performance broadly stable (change under 3 percentage points) (4 pages, A–Z)
18-week performance deteriorated by 3 or more percentage points (13 pages, first 5 A–Z)

8 more in this group. Every hospital page is listed in the hospital trust directory.

NHS waiting trends across England explains the method and covers every specialty and area.

Related areas

Other area pages covering the same NHS trusts.

Distance is not travel time

Distances are straight-line between registered addresses and city centres. Trusts often run several hospital sites, so the site you would attend may be closer or further.

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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