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York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of June 2026, 56,474 people were on the York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust all-services waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (59%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · Yorkshire and The Humber · ODS code RCB

People waiting (all services)
56,474
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
59.0%
England: 65.8%
Over 52 weeks
1,087
Services reported
16
with people currently waiting

1,087 people (1.9%, roughly 1 in 53) 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 York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)7,55256%59.0%99+10 pp
Ophthalmology5,44371%73.8%31+6.5 pp
Orthopaedics4,74563%60.6%65+7.4 pp
Oral surgery4,02847%55.0%145+0.2 pp
Gynaecology3,57251%61.0%14+0.4 pp
Dermatology3,41657%69.0%4+1.5 pp
Respiratory medicine3,05649%74.8%42-1.6 pp
Urology3,00959%65.0%61-0.7 pp
Cardiology2,46060%68.2%31+11.7 pp
Gastroenterology1,86165%69.3%10+7.4 pp
Neurology1,19277%61.7%2+18.6 pp
Rheumatology67283%70.8%0+0.9 pp
Elderly medicine26497%83.1%0+4.7 pp
Plastic surgery24767%59.3%3+2.3 pp
General surgery2993%63.0%0+1.7 pp
General medicine1100%71.4%0—

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people waiting at York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting under 18 weeks stayed broadly stable (59% to 59%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 2.4 points over 3 months (56.6% in March 2026); up 4.1 points over 6 months (54.9% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Broadly stable · +0.4 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 202558.6%
August 202556.9%
September 202556.9%
October 202556.4%
November 202555.7%
December 202554.9%
January 202654.1%
February 202654.7%
March 202656.6%
April 202656.6%
May 202658.2%
June 202659%

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 all-services figures for York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202555,40558.6%1,758
August 202556,81556.9%1,988
September 202557,45056.9%2,034
October 202558,73156.4%1,809
November 202557,77155.7%1,550
December 202557,97154.9%1,321
January 202656,77154.1%1,311
February 202656,64154.7%1,253
March 202654,96556.6%986
April 202655,09856.6%996
May 202655,88558.2%1,052
June 202656,47459.0%1,087

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.

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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