Compare County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust, South Tees Hospitals 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 County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation TrustSouth Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust England
General surgery 13.5 12.5 (shortest) 12.8
Urology – 12.2 12.2
Orthopaedics 7.4 (shortest) 12.4 13.9
Ear, nose and throat 12.1 (shortest) 16.1 15.4
Ophthalmology (eyes) 11.8 10.2 (shortest) 10.4
Oral surgery 13.8 – 16.4
Neurosurgery – 10.7 13.4
Plastic surgery 11.0 10.9 (shortest) 14.0
Cardiothoracic surgery 14.0* 7.7 9.6
General medicine 13.3 3.9 (shortest) 10.2
Gastroenterology 14.7 6.4 (shortest) 11.0
Cardiology (heart) 7.5 (shortest) 10.6 11.9
Dermatology (skin) 15.7 12.3 (shortest) 10.5
Respiratory medicine 12.6 9.3 (shortest) 10.4
Neurology – 14.9 13.2
Rheumatology 19.9 14.3 (shortest) 10.9
Elderly medicine 8.0 6.1 (shortest) 7.6
Gynaecology 12.8 (shortest) 13.7 14.2
Other medical specialties 7.3 (shortest) 12.9 10.7
Other mental health 11.7 – 8.4
Other paediatric specialties 14.6 12.1 (shortest) 12.3
Other surgical specialties – 13.6 11.4
Other services – 3.5 8.7
All specialties 12.3 12.2 (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.