Compare Cobalt Hospital, North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust

Put up to three hospitals or providers side by side, for one specialty or for all of them. Figures for patients waiting at the end of August 2026.

Median wait by specialty

Median waits by specialty compared
Specialty Cobalt HospitalNorth Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust England
General surgery 14.7 14.5 (shortest) 12.8
Urology – 10.9 12.2
Orthopaedics 13.1 8.0 (shortest) 13.9
Plastic surgery 12.0 – 14.0
General medicine – 6.2 10.2
Gastroenterology 7.5 (shortest) 10.7 11.0
Cardiology (heart) – 7.9 11.9
Respiratory medicine – 12.8 10.4
Rheumatology – 10.7 10.9
Elderly medicine – 8.4 7.6
Gynaecology – 17.1 14.2
Other paediatric specialties – 19.4 12.3
Other surgical specialties – 4.0 11.4
Other services – 14.9 8.7
All specialties 11.8 11.1 (shortest) 12.2

Median wait in weeks. The shortest in each row is marked in bold; * means fewer than 50 patients waiting, so not compared. Choose a specialty to see a trend chart.