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Ear, nose and throat (ENT) waiting times at Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 2,560 people were on the Ear, nose and throat (ENT) at Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (68%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
2,560
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
67.5%
England: 59%
Over 52 weeks
39
Median wait
12 wks
Published median for this list

39 people (1.5%, roughly 1 in 67) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 8.5 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 9.5% of everyone waiting at Chesterfield Royal 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 20.8 percentage points (47% to 68%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 4.5 points over 3 months (63.0% in March 2026); up 22.3 points over 6 months (45.2% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +20.8 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 202546.7%
August 202545.1%
September 202542.7%
October 202541.1%
November 202541.1%
December 202545.2%
January 202646.6%
February 202653.4%
March 202663%
April 202664%
May 202665.6%
June 202667.5%

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 Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20253,51446.7%78
August 20253,62345.1%115
September 20253,61442.7%179
October 20253,57341.1%296
November 20253,42741.1%368
December 20253,22245.2%222
January 20263,02946.6%187
February 20262,71553.4%132
March 20262,55563.0%68
April 20262,67764.0%61
May 20262,61265.6%52
June 20262,56067.5%39

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
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust9.7 mi3,40367%-0.4 pp
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust12.5 mi2,40173%+5.5 pp
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust22 mi8,16765%-2.8 pp
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust22.8 mi3,45665%-2.2 pp
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust23 mi9,40554%-13.3 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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