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Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust: waiting times

Consultant-led waiting times for Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, as published by NHS England for August 2026 (provider code RTF).

39,301patients still waiting to start consultant-led treatment at the end of the month at this provider
83.6%of them had been waiting 18 weeks or less (England: 65.2%)
0had been waiting more than 52 weeks (England: 112,958 in total)

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Listings whose NHS organisation code starts with RTF, the code of this trust. The figures on this page are for the whole provider, not for each of these sites.

Waiting times by specialty

Specialties are A to Z. The England column is the share across all providers for the same specialty.

SpecialtyWaitingWaiting 18 weeks or lessEnglandWaiting over 52 weeks
Cardiology1,61697.3%67.9%0
Elderly Medicine59099.7%84.3%0
Gastroenterology1,44097.4%69.7%0
General Internal Medicine1,62099.6%72.3%0
General Surgery6,63791.4%63.2%0
Gynaecology3,24079.2%59.6%0
Oral Surgery1,58464.5%53.8%0
Other - Mental Health Services18797.9%82.0%0
Other - Other Services35099.7%76.5%0
Other - Paediatric Services1,27498.3%66.0%0
Plastic Surgery3,26079.0%59.4%0
Respiratory Medicine2,78193.0%74.1%0
Rheumatology1,04687.4%70.4%0
Trauma and Orthopaedic10,78370.5%60.9%0
Urology2,89388.6%64.8%0

– means fewer than 50 pathways. Source: NHS England, Consultant-led Referral to Treatment Waiting Times Data, August 2026 ("Full CSV data file", incomplete pathways). Imported by Docorix on 31 October 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Information from NHS England. Source pages last checked 31 October 2026.

How to read these figures

NHS England counts incomplete pathways: in its words, “waiting times for cases where patients are still waiting to start treatment at the end of the month”. Each pathway runs from a referral for consultant-led care to the start of treatment, so one patient can appear more than once if they are waiting for more than one thing. NHS.uk gives “18 weeks” as the maximum waiting time for non-urgent, consultant-led treatment (NHS.uk guide to waiting times).

These are figures about the waiting list, not a forecast of how long a new patient will wait, and they do not cover urgent or cancer care, which NHS England reports separately. A trust’s waiting times can differ widely between specialties, so the specialty tables are usually more useful than the totals. Trusts are listed A to Z; Docorix does not rank them, because trusts differ in size, in the specialties they offer and in the patients they treat. Ask your GP or use the NHS e-Referral Service to see which hospitals can see you and how long each is currently taking.

Cancer waiting times, August 2026 (provisional): Faster Diagnosis Standard: 81.2% (2,089 patients); 31-day combined standard: 90.7% (312 patients); 62-day combined standard: 80.1% (263.5 patients). Cancer waiting times at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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