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Blyth Community Hospital

Thoroton Street, Blyth, NE24 1DX · NHS England North (Cumbria and North East)

Trust-wide at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, 8 in 10 patients would recommend it. The shortest published NHS wait across this NHS trust is 3 weeks.

About this provider

Funding
NHS
Website
Telephone
08448118111
CQC provider ID
RTF
CQC location ID
RTFDX

Care Quality Commission rating

Most recent inspection: n/a.

No published rating 0 of 4 CQC bands

Care Quality Commission, Open Government Licence v3.0, retrieved 2026-08-30. CQC uses a four-band scale and does not issue a star rating.

Specialties treated here

NHS specialties with a published waiting time at this NHS trust. Select one for how it compares across the area.

What patients said

The NHS Friends and Family Test asks patients whether they would recommend the service. Responses for May 2026. These figures are for Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and cover all its hospitals.

Inpatient care
94%
would recommend · 946 responses
A&E
79%
would recommend · 1,844 responses
Outpatient appointments
95%
would recommend · 1,487 responses

NHS England Friends and Family Test, Open Government Licence v3.0, retrieved 2026-08-30. The FFT is not a formal performance measure and response rates vary between services.

Cancer waiting times

How quickly this trust diagnoses and starts treatment for people referred with a suspicion of cancer. Data for March 2026. Targets are the NHS operational standards. No English region currently meets the 62-day standard. These figures are for Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, which runs this hospital.

62-day treatment
85%
% starting first cancer treatment within 62 days of an urgent GP referral
target 85%
28-day diagnosis
83%
% told they have cancer, or that they do not, within 28 days of an urgent referral
target 75%
31-day treatment
96%
% starting first treatment within 31 days of the decision to treat
target 96%

62-day treatment by cancer type

The share of patients who began treatment within 62 days of an urgent referral, for each type this trust reports. The national aim is 85%. Numbers per type are smaller, so they move more from month to month.

Cancer typeWithin 62 days
Breast94%
Lung70%
Bowel92%
Prostate79%
Skin83%
Gynaecological95%
Lymphoma100%
Oesophagus and stomach72%
Liver and bile duct89%
Other urological94%
Other blood100%

NHS England Cancer Waiting Times, Open Government Licence v3.0, retrieved 2026-08-30. Provisional monthly data. Small numbers of patients can move a percentage sharply.

Mortality (SHMI)

The Summary Hospital-level Mortality Indicator compares the number of people who die after care at this trust with the number expected, given how ill the patients were. Rolling 12 months to August 2025. This figure is for Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, which runs this hospital.

As expected SHMI 0.981.00 = as expected

NHS Digital, Accredited Official Statistic, Open Government Licence v3.0, retrieved 2026-08-30. The SHMI is not a measure of the quality of care and a “higher than expected” band is a flag for further investigation, not a judgement. It must not be used to rank trusts. It does not include deaths of patients receiving palliative care where that is coded.

NHS waiting times, trust-wide

Waiting times are reported by NHS trusts, not by individual hospitals. These figures are for Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, which runs this hospital along with its other sites. Waits at this site may differ.

Source: NHS England Referral to Treatment, latest published month.
SpecialtyMedian waitWithin 18 weeksPatients waiting
All specialties9 wks84%39,619
Cardiology7 wks98%1,607
Elderly medicine4 wks100%640
Gastroenterology7 wks97%1,523
General internal medicine5 wks100%1,559
General surgery8 wks92%6,520
Gynaecology10 wks77%4,045
Neurology12 wks100%1
Oral surgery13 wks63%1,624
Other mental health services3 wks97%202
Other services7 wks99%357
Paediatric services7 wks97%1,287
Plastic surgery7 wks80%2,951
Respiratory medicine8 wks95%2,820
Rheumatology7 wks84%1,164
Trauma and orthopaedics11 wks70%10,399
Urology8 wks91%2,920

NHS-funded care only. Does not reflect private appointment availability. Retrieved 2026-08-30.

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