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Ear, nose and throat (ENT) waiting times at Barts Health NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 6,246 people were on the Ear, nose and throat (ENT) at Barts Health NHS Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (47%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Barts Health NHS Trust · NHS trust · Ear, nose and throat (ENT) across England

People waiting
6,246
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
46.5%
England: 59%
Over 52 weeks
226
Median wait
20 wks
Published median for this list

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

This hospital's published position is 12.5 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 5.1% of everyone waiting at Barts Health NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 3.9 percentage points (50% to 47%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (47.2% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (46.0% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -3.9 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 202550.4%
August 202550.5%
September 202550%
October 202548%
November 202546.7%
December 202546%
January 202646.1%
February 202645.6%
March 202647.2%
April 202646%
May 202644.7%
June 202646.5%

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 Ear, nose and throat (ENT) figures at Barts Health NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20257,09450.4%431
August 20256,90250.5%338
September 20256,92650.0%317
October 20257,18848.0%366
November 20257,17746.7%385
December 20257,15646.0%411
January 20267,31446.1%338
February 20267,18545.6%274
March 20266,59647.2%135
April 20266,30546.0%147
May 20266,23244.7%174
June 20266,24646.5%226

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
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust2.4 mi2,66566%+19.3 pp
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust3 mi5,68560%+13.2 pp
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust3.5 mi6,95360%+13.2 pp
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust3.8 mi70379%+32.2 pp
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust4.7 mi8,92353%+6.3 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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