How long is the wait for a rotator cuff surgery at University Hospital of North Durham?
The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, which runs University Hospital of North Durham, and it is the wait that applies to you here.
Updated June 2026 · (Referral to Treatment — the NHS wait-time framework)
This is how long 8 in 10 patients wait for the whole Trauma & Orthopaedics specialty at this trust, from GP referral to the start of treatment — the NHS does not publish a wait for rotator cuff surgery on its own.
Before treatment: the scan wait too
An ultrasound scan is a separate NHS queue from the treatment wait above, and it comes first. At South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust the typical ultrasound wait is 3 weeks, with 23% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).
See University Hospital of North Durham's full ultrasound queue and faster scan alternatives →
Faster hospitals within 100 miles of University Hospital of North Durham
Distances are straight-line from this hospital's own location, so this list is specific to University Hospital of North Durham.
- North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust · Hartlepool31w · 16 mi · 12w faster
- Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust · North Tyneside36w · 17 mi · 7w faster
- South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Middlesbrough32w · 22 mi · 11w faster
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust · Bradford35w · 63 mi · 8w faster
- Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust · Kirklees34w · 79 mi · 9w faster
- Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust · Tameside33w · 92 mi · 10w faster
Other hospitals run by South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust
Same trust, so the wait above applies at these too — your care could be at any of them.
- Sunderland Royal Hospital11 mi
- South Tyneside District Hospital14 mi
See every NHS trust ranked by rotator cuff surgery wait →
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