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|October 15, 2025
At the South Tyneside and Sunderland Trust, 10,535 patients were waiting for one of 13 standard tests, such as an MRI scan, non-obstetric ultrasound or gastroscopy at this time.
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Of them, 1,663 had been waiting for at least six weeks.
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