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Orthopaedics waiting times at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 1,421 people were on the Orthopaedics at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (64%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Orthopaedics across England

People waiting
1,421
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
63.9%
England: 60.6%
Over 52 weeks
18
Median wait
12 wks
Published median for this list

18 people (1.3%, roughly 1 in 77) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is broadly in line with the England picture 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 10% 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 improved by 3.1 percentage points (61% to 64%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (64.8% in March 2026); up 2 points over 6 months (61.9% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +3.1 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 202560.8%
August 202561.7%
September 202563.6%
October 202560.5%
November 202562%
December 202561.9%
January 202661.9%
February 202662.6%
March 202664.8%
April 202661.5%
May 202662.1%
June 202663.9%

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 Orthopaedics figures at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20251,45560.8%19
August 20251,50861.7%19
September 20251,57863.6%25
October 20251,46660.5%42
November 20251,49662.0%49
December 20251,58061.9%37
January 20261,60861.9%34
February 20261,59762.6%35
March 20261,56264.8%9
April 20261,46961.5%8
May 20261,42262.1%16
June 20261,42163.9%18

Other NHS trusts offering orthopaedics 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 Orthopaedics
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust9.3 mi1,97655%-9.2 pp
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust17.8 mi2,42275%+11 pp
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust19.1 mi6,33356%-7.8 pp
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust19.3 mi3,54363%-1.2 pp
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust23.3 mi6,76279%+15 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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