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Oral surgery waiting times at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 445 people were on the Oral surgery at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (68%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Oral surgery across England

People waiting
445
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
68.1%
England: 55%
Over 52 weeks
3
Median wait
12 wks
Published median for this list

3 people (0.7%, roughly 1 in 143) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 13.1 percentage points better than the England figure for this service.

Why this page exists

This page combines facts that neither the organisation page nor the England specialty page shows on its own: the current published figure for this one service at this one organisation; how that figure has moved over the months we hold; the England figure for the same service in the same month; other NHS trusts within 25 miles reporting the same service; the published median wait and 52-week count for this list; the other services this organisation reports. This service accounts for 3.1% of everyone waiting at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 22.5 percentage points (91% to 68%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 5.7 points over 3 months (73.8% in March 2026); down 16.5 points over 6 months (84.6% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -22.5 points

Percentage of people seen within 18 weeks, over the last 12 published months.

View these figures as a table
Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202590.6%
August 202589.5%
September 202583.6%
October 202583%
November 202583.7%
December 202584.6%
January 202682.3%
February 202680.1%
March 202673.8%
April 202673%
May 202671.6%
June 202668.1%

Month-to-month movements of less than two percentage points are treated as normal variation rather than a real change in direction.

Month-by-month figures
Monthly Oral surgery figures at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202528890.6%0
August 202530689.5%0
September 202533683.6%0
October 202531883.0%0
November 202535583.7%0
December 202539584.6%0
January 202639582.3%0
February 202643880.1%0
March 202645173.8%0
April 202644473.0%0
May 202644071.6%1
June 202644568.1%3

Other NHS trusts offering oral surgery within 25 miles

Published figures only. These are whole-list figures for each organisation in one month; a different organisation's published position does not mean an individual referral would move faster there.

Alternative trusts for Oral surgery
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust9.3 mi1,92654%-13.9 pp
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust17.8 mi1,81058%-9.9 pp
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust19.1 mi2,11972%+3.5 pp
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust19.3 mi88469%+0.5 pp
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust23.3 mi3,96360%-8.6 pp

What these figures cannot tell you

  • Where you are in a queue, or when you will be seen or treated.
  • How urgent your own referral is. These are aggregate waiting-list figures and do not show the clinical priority of an individual patient.
  • Anything about a specific consultant, clinic or site within a trust.
  • What will happen next month: these are end-of-month snapshots of a past period.

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