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

At the end of August 2026, 5,478 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 (51%) 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
5,478
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
51.4%
England: 56.8%
Over 52 weeks
109
Median wait
18 wks
Published median for this list

109 people (2.0%, roughly 1 in 50) 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 7.6% of everyone waiting at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital 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 broadly stable

Published 18-week performance for Ear, nose and throat (ENT) at this organisation has been broadly stable over the past 12 months (a change of under 3 percentage points): 51.4% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 50.2% 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
51.4%
3 months earlier · May 2026
55.7% then · change to latest -4.3 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
50.8% then · change to latest +0.7 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
50.2% then · change to latest +1.2 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
57.9% then · change to latest -6.4 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202651.4%5,478
July 202652.5%5,516
June 202654.7%5,613
May 202655.7%5,791
April 202655.5%5,608
March 202654.8%5,490
February 202650.8%5,521
January 202649.3%5,481
December 202548.9%5,575
November 202548.4%5,806
October 202548.6%5,859
September 202550%5,700
August 202550.2%5,490
July 202549.1%5,406
June 202550.7%5,483
May 202549.6%5,321
April 202547.2%5,359
March 202546.8%5,333
February 202548%5,239
January 202548.1%5,230
December 202451.3%4,977
November 202452.8%4,774
October 202453.2%4,799
September 202453.2%4,756
August 202452.9%4,795
July 202454.6%4,729
June 202457.3%4,566
May 202459.4%4,393
April 202457.9%4,221
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
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust2.3 mi7,92262%+11 pp
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust2.9 mi5,45566%+14.6 pp
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust3.4 mi7,62161%+9.8 pp
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust3.9 mi84694%+42.1 pp
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust4 mi5,25157%+5.9 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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