The Newcastle Hospitals NHS Trust faces "real challenges" in managing to treat all patients who've been waiting more than two years by July, the trust's chief executive has warned.
There are 251 people who have currently waited for more than two years for their treatment - and NHS Trusts around the country have been told by the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England that this figure needs to be reduced to zero by July.
Explaining the work going on at the Trust's hospitals in the city, chief exec Dame Jackie Daniel said this was a "reasonable" ask and said departments across the organisation were working hard to treat the people who had been waiting the longest.
