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Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of August 2026, 35,543 people were on the Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust all-services waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (76%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · Yorkshire and The Humber · ODS code RWY

People waiting (all services)
35,543
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
76.3%
England: 65.2%
Over 52 weeks
9
Services reported
16
with people currently waiting

9 people (0.0%) 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 Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
General surgery5,49273%63.2%0-1.8 pp
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)5,17665%56.8%3+4.1 pp
Gynaecology3,11373%59.6%0+1.7 pp
Ophthalmology2,67986%72.2%0-3.6 pp
Orthopaedics2,45872%60.9%1-3.5 pp
Gastroenterology2,22979%69.7%0+6.9 pp
Dermatology2,01590%69.0%0+1.1 pp
Urology1,85878%64.8%0-2.7 pp
Cardiology1,76382%67.9%3+1.8 pp
Oral surgery1,60761%53.8%1+8 pp
Rheumatology1,01077%70.4%0+1.5 pp
Respiratory medicine94883%74.1%0+3.9 pp
Neurology72586%62.3%0-10.2 pp
Plastic surgery52964%59.4%0+10.1 pp
Elderly medicine20478%84.3%0-5.2 pp
General medicine14993%72.3%0-7.4 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and August 2026 the share of people waiting at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust waiting under 18 weeks improved by 7.8 percentage points (69% to 76%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (74.4% in May 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (74.7% in February 2026); up 7.6 points over 12 months (68.7% in August 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

18-week performance improving · +7.8 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 202568.5%
August 202568.7%
September 202571.3%
October 202571.3%
November 202572.6%
December 202574.4%
January 202674.6%
February 202674.7%
March 202676%
April 202674.2%
May 202674.4%
June 202675.5%
July 202676.2%
August 202676.3%

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 Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202536,72868.5%54
August 202536,73868.7%48
September 202537,04771.3%17
October 202536,04171.3%18
November 202536,29672.6%17
December 202535,38974.4%23
January 202635,56474.6%21
February 202635,73174.7%16
March 202636,30776.0%6
April 202636,11674.2%10
May 202636,07474.4%4
June 202635,68275.5%8
July 202634,86176.2%8
August 202635,54376.3%9

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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