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Elderly medicine waiting times at York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 264 people were on the Elderly medicine at York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and more than 9 in 10 people (97%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
264
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
97.3%
England: 83.1%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
5 wks
Published median for this list

No one on this list had been waiting more than 52 weeks in June 2026.

This hospital's published position is 14.3 percentage points better than 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 0.5% of everyone waiting at York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals 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 3.3 percentage points (94% to 97%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 5.4 points over 3 months (91.9% in March 2026); up 4.7 points over 6 months (92.6% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +3.3 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 202594%
August 202593%
September 202594.1%
October 202594.5%
November 202591%
December 202592.6%
January 202693.2%
February 202690.8%
March 202691.9%
April 202693.1%
May 202695.8%
June 202697.3%

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 Elderly medicine figures at York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202518294.0%0
August 202518693.0%0
September 202518894.1%0
October 202520094.5%0
November 202518891.0%0
December 202520492.6%0
January 202621993.2%0
February 202620690.8%0
March 202619791.9%0
April 202620393.1%0
May 202623995.8%0
June 202626497.3%0

Other NHS trusts offering elderly medicine 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 Elderly medicine
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust17.7 mi8291%-5.9 pp
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust21.1 mi51100%+2.7 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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