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Dermatology waiting times at York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 3,614 people were on the Dermatology at York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (57%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Dermatology across England

People waiting
3,614
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
57.1%
England: 69%
Over 52 weeks
13
Median wait
15 wks
Published median for this list

13 people (0.4%, roughly 1 in 250) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 11.9 percentage points behind 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 6.3% of everyone waiting at York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

Dermatology, NHS England Referral to Treatment figures, April 2024 to August 2026.

18-week performance deteriorated

Published 18-week performance for Dermatology at this organisation has deteriorated over the past 12 months: 57.1% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 64.9% at the end of August 2025.

Share of people on the waiting list who had been waiting under 18 weeks, at the end of each month. Scale runs from 0% to 100%.
Latest · August 2026
57.1%
3 months earlier · May 2026
53.6% then · change to latest +3.5 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
54.9% then · change to latest +2.2 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
64.9% then · change to latest -7.8 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
39.1% then · change to latest +18 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202657.1%3,614
July 202656.9%3,559
June 202656.9%3,416
May 202653.6%3,071
April 202653.6%3,038
March 202654.1%3,109
February 202654.9%3,268
January 202653.5%3,341
December 202555.4%3,488
November 202557.8%3,524
October 202559.8%3,443
September 202560.7%3,289
August 202564.9%3,204
July 202565.1%2,909
June 202564.3%2,829
May 202560.9%2,711
April 202554.1%2,516
March 202547.5%2,337
February 202539.9%2,139
January 202537.4%2,348
December 202444.4%2,737
November 202447.6%3,004
October 202447.5%3,014
September 202449.4%3,014
August 202449.7%3,027
July 202448.8%2,994
June 202446.5%2,995
May 202443%3,085
April 202439.1%3,205
How we calculate change
  • Each month's figure is the number of people waiting under 18 weeks divided by everyone on the waiting list, from NHS England's published monthly files.
  • Changes compare the latest month with exactly 3, 6 and 12 months earlier, only where both months are published and the list has at least 50 people.
  • The 12-month label is "improved" or "deteriorated" only if the share moved by 3 percentage points or more; smaller moves are called "broadly stable".
  • Where NHS England reissued a month's file, we use the revised file. Months we do not have are left as gaps and never estimated.
  • Earlier months come from our archive of NHS England's published files and are checked against our current figures wherever both exist.

What these figures cannot tell you

  • These are whole-list figures for one specialty at one organisation. They describe the published waiting list, not how long any one person will wait.
  • This specialty covers many conditions and treatments. These figures are not specific to any one operation or condition.
  • Figures are published for the whole organisation, which may run several hospital sites. They do not show the position at any single site.
  • Patients are prioritised by clinical need, so people on the same list can wait very different times.
  • A higher share within 18 weeks is not a measure of the quality of care.

Other NHS trusts offering dermatology 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 Dermatology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust17.7 mi1,59796%+38.8 pp
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust21.1 mi5,70469%+12.3 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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