NHS waiting times · Hartlepool · Trauma & Orthopaedics

How long is the wait for a rotator cuff surgery at University Hospital of North Tees?

The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust, which runs University Hospital of North Tees, and it is the wait that applies to you here.

31weeks

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

2weekstypical ultrasound wait · June 2026

An ultrasound scan is a separate NHS queue from the treatment wait above, and it comes first. At North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust the typical ultrasound wait is 2 weeks, with 0% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).

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Other hospitals run by North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust

Same trust, so the wait above applies at these too — your care could be at any of them.

  • University Hospital of Hartlepool10 mi

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