Waiting times by location
NHS waiting times in Yorkshire and the Humber
14 NHS trusts in the Yorkshire and the Humber NHS region reported referral-to-treatment figures for August 2026.
- NHS trusts with data
- 14
- People waiting (combined)
- 562,004
- Sum of published trust totals
- Best-performing trust
- 97.8%
- share under 18 weeks
- Lowest
- 55.4%
- share under 18 weeks
Trusts compared
Trusts whose registered region is this NHS region, listed alphabetically. Regions are NHS England administrative areas, so a trust near a boundary may serve people across it. All-services figures hide large differences between individual services, so open a trust to see service-level figures.
| Trust | Waiting | Under 18 weeks | Over 52 weeks | Tests over 6 wks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airedale NHS Foundation Trust | 14,971 | 71% | 40 | 4.7% |
| Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | 21,616 | 69% | 148 | 3.9% |
| Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 31,756 | 69% | 40 | 11.9% |
| Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust | 35,543 | 76% | 9 | 9.5% |
| Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 55,386 | 64% | 1,553 | 24.2% |
| Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust | 21,733 | 71% | 12 | 29.5% |
| Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | 86,732 | 55% | 3,500 | 37.2% |
| Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | 89,330 | 67% | 1,485 | 11.3% |
| Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust | 57,958 | 66% | 337 | 10.6% |
| Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust | 43,139 | 59% | 1,584 | 32.6% |
| Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust | 11,708 | 71% | 122 | 16.3% |
| South West Yorkshire Partnership Teaching NHS Foundation Trust | 4,705 | 98% | 0 | 3.1% |
| The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust | 29,815 | 68% | 376 | 1.6% |
| York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 57,612 | 59% | 1,257 | 20.6% |
A further 47 NHS-funded independent-sector and other providers in this area are not listed because their case mix makes direct comparison misleading.
Services where local trusts differ most
Gap in the share waiting under 18 weeks between the highest and lowest trust here, for services with at least 200 people waiting.
Gastroenterology · 12 trusts · England 69.7%
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: 92.3% — Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust: 39.5% (gap 52.8 pp)
Rheumatology · 12 trusts · England 70.4%
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: 100.0% — Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust: 47.3% (gap 52.7 pp)
Respiratory medicine · 11 trusts · England 74.1%
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: 94.0% — York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 43.7% (gap 50.3 pp)
Dermatology · 10 trusts · England 69.0%
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust: 95.9% — Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust: 46.5% (gap 49.4 pp)
Cardiology · 12 trusts · England 67.9%
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: 96.5% — Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust: 49.5% (gap 47 pp)
Neurology · 8 trusts · England 62.3%
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust: 86.3% — Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 47.4% (gap 39 pp)
Plastic surgery · 6 trusts · England 59.4%
Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust: 75.6% — Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust: 43.9% (gap 31.7 pp)
Elderly medicine · 4 trusts · England 84.3%
York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 95.4% — Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust: 64.0% (gap 31.4 pp)
How 18-week performance changed over 12 months
Of the 148 hospital-and-specialty pages for NHS trusts in the Yorkshire and the Humber NHS region with enough comparable published history (12 organisations), these are the 12-month changes in the share of each waiting list waiting under 18 weeks, August 2025 to August 2026:
- 71 of 14818-week performance improved by 3 or more percentage points
- 36 of 14818-week performance broadly stable (change under 3 percentage points)
- 41 of 14818-week performance deteriorated by 3 or more percentage points
These are counts of provider-and-specialty pages, not people. A large and a small waiting list each count once, so the counts describe how many published lists moved in each direction, not how waits changed for patients in general. They do not predict any individual wait and say nothing about quality of care. Figures are for whole trusts or providers, not individual hospital sites. Lists are alphabetical, not ranked.
18-week performance improved by 3 or more percentage points (71 pages, first 5 A–Z)
- Gastroenterology, Airedale NHS Foundation Trust · 63.5% → 71.4%
- General surgery, Airedale NHS Foundation Trust · 69.9% → 78.2%
- Gynaecology, Airedale NHS Foundation Trust · 54.8% → 59%
- Neurology, Airedale NHS Foundation Trust · 70% → 73.5%
- Orthopaedics, Airedale NHS Foundation Trust · 61.7% → 66.2%
66 more in this group. Every hospital page is listed in the hospital trust directory.
18-week performance broadly stable (change under 3 percentage points) (36 pages, first 5 A–Z)
- Oral surgery, Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · 53.4% → 54.9%
- Cardiology, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · 70.2% → 71.6%
- Gynaecology, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · 74.7% → 71.8%
- Oral surgery, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · 53.1% → 51.7%
- Urology, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · 67.1% → 65.9%
31 more in this group. Every hospital page is listed in the hospital trust directory.
18-week performance deteriorated by 3 or more percentage points (41 pages, first 5 A–Z)
- Cardiology, Airedale NHS Foundation Trust · 79.4% → 72.5%
- Ear, nose and throat (ENT), Airedale NHS Foundation Trust · 70.4% → 63.8%
- Ophthalmology, Airedale NHS Foundation Trust · 87.1% → 81.1%
- Respiratory medicine, Airedale NHS Foundation Trust · 79.3% → 58.2%
- Urology, Airedale NHS Foundation Trust · 78.6% → 73.9%
36 more in this group. Every hospital page is listed in the hospital trust directory.
NHS waiting trends across England explains the method and covers every specialty and area.
Related areas
Other area pages covering the same NHS trusts.
- Hospitals near Leeds
A population centre inside the Yorkshire and the Humber
- Hospitals near Sheffield
A population centre inside the Yorkshire and the Humber
Distance is not travel time
Distances are straight-line between registered addresses and city centres. Trusts often run several hospital sites, so the site you would attend may be closer or further.
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.
Related guides on this site
- NHS patient choice explained
Background on the legal basis of NHS patient choice.
- How to switch hospitals for faster NHS treatment
Reference article on how hospital switching works within the NHS.
- Work out how long you've waited
Explains how the 18-week measure is counted and what a published percentage represents.
- Your rights while you wait
Reference article on what the 18-week standard is and is not.