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Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of August 2026, 31,756 people were on the Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust all-services waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (69%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · Yorkshire and The Humber · ODS code RAE

People waiting (all services)
31,756
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
68.9%
England: 65.2%
Over 52 weeks
40
Services reported
16
with people currently waiting

40 people (0.1%, roughly 1 in 1000) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

Figures are for the whole organisation (trust level), not for an individual hospital site or clinic. The all-services total is the published organisation total, not a sum of the service rows.

Waiting times by service

Each row is one consultant-led service at this organisation, compared with the England figure for the same service in the same month.

Services at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)3,31862%56.8%2+1 pp
Gynaecology2,49472%59.6%0-3.7 pp
Ophthalmology2,40078%72.2%0+7.6 pp
Oral surgery2,03552%53.8%3+2.3 pp
Orthopaedics1,95359%60.9%31+9.8 pp
Urology1,78166%64.8%0+1.6 pp
Neurology1,38347%62.3%2-2.2 pp
Gastroenterology1,35569%69.7%0+1.2 pp
Dermatology1,18090%69.0%0+1.8 pp
Plastic surgery1,04666%59.4%0+20.9 pp
Cardiology92172%67.9%0-2.3 pp
Respiratory medicine81570%74.1%0+20.2 pp
Rheumatology58284%70.4%0-1.4 pp
General surgery31257%63.2%0-14.3 pp
Elderly medicine6888%84.3%0-9.9 pp
General medicine4988%72.3%0+1.8 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and August 2026 the share of people waiting at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting under 18 weeks stayed broadly stable (66% to 69%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (68.7% in May 2026); up 4.4 points over 6 months (64.5% in February 2026); up 3.3 points over 12 months (65.6% in August 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

18-week performance broadly stable · +2.7 points

Percentage of people seen within 18 weeks, over the last 14 published months.

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Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202566.2%
August 202565.6%
September 202566.2%
October 202565.4%
November 202564.7%
December 202564.8%
January 202664.1%
February 202664.5%
March 202666.2%
April 202666.7%
May 202668.7%
June 202669.3%
July 202668.5%
August 202668.9%

Changes of less than 3 percentage points in the share waiting under 18 weeks are treated as broadly stable. This describes the whole waiting list, not how long any one person waits.

Month-by-month figures
Monthly all-services figures for Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202533,14966.2%193
August 202533,72865.6%238
September 202533,40666.2%212
October 202532,20665.4%145
November 202531,83364.7%127
December 202531,93264.8%80
January 202631,61064.1%70
February 202631,26364.5%69
March 202631,44666.2%63
April 202631,09366.7%73
May 202631,52568.7%65
June 202631,60669.3%55
July 202631,41268.5%44
August 202631,75668.9%40

Diagnostic tests

Tests are measured against a separate six-week standard. Figures for June 2026.

Nearby NHS trusts

Trusts within 25 miles that report waiting figures. Distances are between registered addresses, not travel time.

Waiting times across this area

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Contact details we hold for this organisation

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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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