[3] The hospital covers a wide area including Keighley, Skipton and parts of the Yorkshire Dales and eastern Lancashire.

Building work was initiated in 1966 to a plan by then-renowned, later disgraced architect John Garlick Llewellyn Poulson.

[8] The opening of Airedale spelt the end for some of the older hospitals in the area, namely Keighley Victoria, St Johns and Mortons Bank.

It is also believed to be the oldest reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) hospital in the UK, which poses a dangerous risk to its overall infrastructure.

[16] The Guardian newspaper noted that a 2020 proposal to rebuild Airedale Hospital was not funded by HM Treasury during Rishi Sunak's term as Chancellor of the Exchequer, despite a "catastrophic" grade of risk and a warning that an incident was "likely".