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Oral surgery waiting times at York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 4,028 people were on the Oral surgery at York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (47%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
4,028
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
47.3%
England: 55%
Over 52 weeks
145
Median wait
20 wks
Published median for this list

145 people (3.6%, roughly 1 in 28) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 7.7 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 7.1% 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 4.1 percentage points (43% to 47%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (48.1% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (47.1% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +4.1 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 202543.2%
August 202542.1%
September 202542.6%
October 202545.2%
November 202547.2%
December 202547.1%
January 202647.5%
February 202647.1%
March 202648.1%
April 202646.7%
May 202647.7%
June 202647.3%

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 Oral surgery figures at York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20254,50243.2%364
August 20254,39442.1%372
September 20254,12242.6%325
October 20254,18945.2%289
November 20254,06847.2%254
December 20254,05847.1%220
January 20263,98247.5%174
February 20263,89347.1%122
March 20263,88248.1%90
April 20263,90246.7%89
May 20263,90047.7%101
June 20264,02847.3%145

Other NHS trusts offering oral surgery 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 Oral surgery
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust17.7 mi88469%+21.2 pp
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust21.1 mi2,11972%+24.3 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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