The following table shows the number of Finished Admission Episodes (FAEs) where the main operative procedure was a dental procedure, by patient age group in each year from 2021/22 to 2025/26 in the York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust:

Note: data for 2025/26 is provisional.

An FAE is the first period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FAEs are typically counted against the year or month in which the admission episode finishes, which is the approach we have used here. Admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the period.

We know that patients have been let down for too long, with their health deteriorating, while they wait for the care they need.

Reducing waiting lists is a key part of the Government’s Health Mission, and we are putting patients first by ensuring that they are seen on time and that they have the best possible experience of care across the country, including at York Hospital.

As set out in the Plan for Change, we are committed to returning by March 2029 to the National Health Service constitutional standard that 92% of patients wait no longer than 18 weeks from referral to consultant-led treatment, with an interim target of 65% by March 2026.

The Department does not hold waiting list data for January 2026 and at a hospital level. The latest waiting list data for the York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, as of November 2025, shows that 55.7% of waits are below 18 weeks, a 0.2 percentage point improvement from the previous year.

Our two-year urgent and emergency care recovery plan, backed by £1 billion of dedicated funding, was published in January 2023, to drive sustained improvements in urgent and emergency care waiting times.

At York Hospital, an expanded and redesigned emergency department was opened in July 2023. This has improved the provision of services, including same day emergency care (SDEC). SDEC supports patients’ access to timely diagnosis and treatment, without the need for admission to hospital.

The latest published data shows that at York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, the proportion of patients waiting 12-hours from decision-to-admit to admission has reduced by 6.9% in March 2024 compared to the previous year.

The Secretary of State has not had discussions with York District Hospital on the potential merits of building a new hospital in York.

No expressions of interest were received from York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in respect of York District Hospital to join the New Hospital Programme. Going forward, new schemes will be considered through a rolling programme of capital investment in hospital infrastructure, with details to be agreed periodically to provide greater future certainty. The government will set out robust plans at future Spending Reviews, including when and how it will seek to invite further projects to join the New Hospital Programme and other major capital investment opportunities.

The National Health Service publishes the annual Estates Returns Information Collection, which includes detailed information on the NHS estate. Individual NHS trusts are responsible for providing the data for the Estates Returns Information Collection and ensuring the accuracy of their returns.

In 2021/22, £0.6 million was invested in backlog maintenance at York Hospital by York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The following table shows the estimated cost to address levels of backlog maintenance reported by York & Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust at York Hospital.

York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has undertaken a comprehensive review of the evidence for saline fluid infusions for the treatment of patients with symptoms of postural tachycardia syndrome. The review found that there is not enough published evidence that this treatment provides sufficient benefit for patients to continue long-term intravenous treatment. The trust has therefore taken a decision to no longer provide this treatment, which is consistent with position of other National Health Service hospital providers.

No national assessment of the trust’s decision has been made by NHS England.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has made no assessment of the potential impact of IV fluid interventions on patients with postural tachycardia syndrome. Therefore, there are no plans to support this treatment at York Hospital.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has published guidance on myalgic encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and recommends being aware that people with these conditions may experience orthostatic intolerance, including postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. It does not make any recommendations on management or treatment; however, it does recommend that people with ME/CFS should maintain fluid intake as part of healthy diet.

No specific assessment has been made. The commissioning of services in the National Health Service is a decision for local NHS commissioners and providers. In making these decisions they will take into account the needs of their local populations and make the best use of available resource to maximise patient outcomes.

The assessment of services such as Nimbuscare is a matter for the NHS directly. NHS England advise that a national assessment of the service has not been carried out.

On 18 October 2022, NHS England wrote to systems on the expansion of winter resilience plans. Systems have been asked to consider establishing Acute Respiratory Infection hubs to manage increased acute respiratory infection (ARI) in the community. Guidance has been issued to support local systems to use existing infrastructure to design ARI hub models to manage demand and provide additional capacity. The hubs will ensure timely access for assessment and treatment and prevent avoidable hospital admissions and attendances.

No assessment has been made.

No assessment has been made.

No assessment of the impact of ambulance waiting times in York has been made. The average time between first contacting an ambulance and an ambulance arriving for people in York who have experienced a myocardial infarction or a stroke is not collected centrally. Strokes and myocardial infarctions are typically triaged as Category 2 ‘Emergency’ calls. The average ambulance response time for Category 2 calls in Yorkshire for May 2022 was 32 minutes and 42 seconds.

No estimate of the average time between an ambulance arriving at York Hospital and the crew handing over a patient to the hospital staff has been made. This information is not centrally collected. No recent national assessment of providing more emergency treatments to patients prior to arrival in accident and emergency has been made.

The Department has not received a serious incident report, Prevention of Future Deaths report or the Coroner’s report in this case. When these are received, we will examine the recommendations and consider what action can be taken. If the recommendations include a request for new regulations under the Health and Care Act 2012, this will be considered.

All services registered by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to provide termination of pregnancy services are subject to inspections and providers have a statutory duty to report incidents to the CQC. Where concerns or evidence of risk are identified, the CQC will ensure the safety of woman accessing those services and will use its enforcement powers where necessary. In addition, Prevention of Future Deaths reports draw the attention of the Government to matters of concern to determine if action is required and to learn lessons. Officials have regular meetings with the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, the CQC and abortion service providers to ensure the appropriate safeguards are in place to protect women accessing abortion services.

The Department has not received a serious incident report, Prevention of Future Deaths report or the Coroner’s report in this case. When these are received, we will examine the recommendations and consider what action can be taken. If the recommendations include a request for new regulations under the Health and Care Act 2012, this will be considered.

All services registered by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to provide termination of pregnancy services are subject to inspections and providers have a statutory duty to report incidents to the CQC. Where concerns or evidence of risk are identified, the CQC will ensure the safety of woman accessing those services and will use its enforcement powers where necessary. In addition, Prevention of Future Deaths reports draw the attention of the Government to matters of concern to determine if action is required and to learn lessons. Officials have regular meetings with the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, the CQC and abortion service providers to ensure the appropriate safeguards are in place to protect women accessing abortion services.

The average waiting times for treatment at York Hospital by year from 2014/15-2018/19 are set out in the following table:

A count of unplanned accident and emergency attendances with mean and median durations (minutes) to initial treatment at York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, 2014-15 to 2018-19

NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics for England. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), but not staff working in primary care, local authorities or other providers. These statistics are available for National Health Service trusts, CCGs and Health Education England (HEE) regions only and not by individual hospital sites. The following table shows the number of consultants, doctors, nurses and health visitors, other professionally qualified staff, support staff and infrastructure staff in York Teaching Hospital NHS Trust as at September each specified year and June 2019, the latest available data, full time equivalent is attached.

York Teaching Hospital NHS Trust data cannot be accurately compared to 2010 due to a merger with Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Healthcare NHS Trust in 2012.

The NHS Digital data that the Department holds provides information by NHS trusts, CCGs and HEE regions. The Department does not hold information for individual hospitals such as York Hospital. NHS trusts and CCGs often span geographical boundaries with staff potentially working in multiple geographical regions and hospitals.

NHS England publishes monthly data on referral to treatment waiting times to report performance against the legal right that patients have to start consultant-led treatment within a maximum of 18 weeks from referral for non-urgent conditions. Waiting times for patients whose treatment started during the month and involved admission to hospital are described in the data as admitted pathways. Not all admissions to hospitals are for surgery.

The following table shows the number and percentage of admitted pathways longer than 26 weeks at York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in each year since 2009-10.

Number and percentage of admitted pathways¹ longer than 26 weeks at York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, 2009-10 to 2015-16

Source: Consultant-led referral to treatment waiting times, NHS England

Notes:

1. Before October 2015, adjustments were allowable to admitted pathways for clock pauses, where a patient declined reasonable offers of admission and chose to wait longer. From October 2015, there is no provision for clock pauses under any circumstances and admitted pathways are unadjusted.
2. York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust acquired Scarborough Hospital in 2012.