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Ear, nose and throat (ENT) waiting times at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 5,613 people were on the Ear, nose and throat (ENT) at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (55%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Ear, nose and throat (ENT) across England

People waiting
5,613
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
54.7%
England: 59%
Over 52 weeks
125
Median wait
17 wks
Published median for this list

125 people (2.2%, roughly 1 in 45) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is broadly in line with the England picture 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 7.6% of everyone waiting at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital 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 5.6 percentage points (49% to 55%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (54.8% in March 2026); up 5.8 points over 6 months (48.9% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +5.6 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 202549.1%
August 202550.2%
September 202550%
October 202548.6%
November 202548.4%
December 202548.9%
January 202649.3%
February 202650.8%
March 202654.8%
April 202655.5%
May 202655.7%
June 202654.7%

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 Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20255,40649.1%215
August 20255,49050.2%192
September 20255,70050.0%202
October 20255,85948.6%204
November 20255,80648.4%205
December 20255,57548.9%177
January 20265,48149.3%160
February 20265,52150.8%161
March 20265,49054.8%152
April 20265,60855.5%151
May 20265,79155.7%164
June 20265,61354.7%125

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
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust2.3 mi7,60563%+7.9 pp
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust2.9 mi5,68560%+4.9 pp
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust3.4 mi6,95360%+5 pp
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust3.9 mi70379%+24 pp
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust4 mi5,11462%+7 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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