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Ear, nose and throat (ENT) waiting times at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 3,648 people were on the Ear, nose and throat (ENT) at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (54%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Ear, nose and throat (ENT) across England

People waiting
3,648
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
53.6%
England: 59%
Over 52 weeks
120
Median wait
17 wks
Published median for this list

120 people (3.3%, roughly 1 in 30) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 5.4 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 6.1% of everyone waiting at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 16.1 percentage points (38% to 54%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 5 points over 3 months (48.6% in March 2026); up 14.5 points over 6 months (39.1% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +16.1 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 202537.5%
August 202538.1%
September 202540.5%
October 202540.1%
November 202539.1%
December 202539.1%
January 202640.6%
February 202642.4%
March 202648.6%
April 202649.9%
May 202652.8%
June 202653.6%

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 Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20255,67437.5%561
August 20255,41338.1%501
September 20255,09640.5%429
October 20254,96940.1%395
November 20254,65439.1%318
December 20254,63739.1%261
January 20264,36440.6%211
February 20264,14542.4%193
March 20263,76648.6%169
April 20263,72849.9%131
May 20263,62852.8%120
June 20263,64853.6%120

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
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust22.9 mi5,72758%+4.2 pp
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust24.4 mi3,00870%+16.4 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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