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Ear, nose and throat (ENT) waiting times at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 1,339 people were on the Ear, nose and throat (ENT) at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (64%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Ear, nose and throat (ENT) across England

People waiting
1,339
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
63.8%
England: 56.8%
Over 52 weeks
1
Median wait
14 wks
Published median for this list

1 people (0.1%, roughly 1 in 1000) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 7 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 8.9% of everyone waiting at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

Ear, nose and throat (ENT), NHS England Referral to Treatment figures, April 2024 to August 2026.

18-week performance deteriorated

Published 18-week performance for Ear, nose and throat (ENT) at this organisation has deteriorated over the past 12 months: 63.8% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 70.4% at the end of August 2025.

Share of people on the waiting list who had been waiting under 18 weeks, at the end of each month. Scale runs from 0% to 100%.
Latest · August 2026
63.8%
3 months earlier · May 2026
65% then · change to latest -1.2 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
69.4% then · change to latest -5.7 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
70.4% then · change to latest -6.7 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
56.7% then · change to latest +7.1 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202663.8%1,339
July 202662.6%1,333
June 202665.1%1,273
May 202665%1,278
April 202667.3%1,229
March 202667.6%1,202
February 202669.4%1,191
January 202663.2%1,151
December 202563.3%1,224
November 202561.9%1,243
October 202562.9%1,164
September 202569.8%1,131
August 202570.4%1,069
July 202572.3%1,102
June 202574.7%1,142
May 202575.2%1,091
April 202575.9%1,015
March 202578.9%996
February 202574.2%955
January 202570.9%912
December 202469.6%954
November 202468.4%1,012
October 202470.2%1,087
September 202464.2%1,133
August 202457%1,214
July 202452.8%1,370
June 202453%1,388
May 202453.9%1,355
April 202456.7%1,388
How we calculate change
  • Each month's figure is the number of people waiting under 18 weeks divided by everyone on the waiting list, from NHS England's published monthly files.
  • Changes compare the latest month with exactly 3, 6 and 12 months earlier, only where both months are published and the list has at least 50 people.
  • The 12-month label is "improved" or "deteriorated" only if the share moved by 3 percentage points or more; smaller moves are called "broadly stable".
  • Where NHS England reissued a month's file, we use the revised file. Months we do not have are left as gaps and never estimated.
  • Earlier months come from our archive of NHS England's published files and are checked against our current figures wherever both exist.

What these figures cannot tell you

  • These are whole-list figures for one specialty at one organisation. They describe the published waiting list, not how long any one person will wait.
  • This specialty covers many conditions and treatments. These figures are not specific to any one operation or condition.
  • Figures are published for the whole organisation, which may run several hospital sites. They do not show the position at any single site.
  • Patients are prioritised by clinical need, so people on the same list can wait very different times.
  • A higher share within 18 weeks is not a measure of the quality of care.

Other NHS trusts offering ear, nose and throat (ent) 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 Ear, nose and throat (ENT)
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust9.3 mi3,31862%-1.9 pp
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust17.8 mi5,17665%+1 pp
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust19.1 mi3,26457%-7 pp
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust19.3 mi2,81057%-6.7 pp
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust23.3 mi3,54579%+15.1 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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