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Ear, nose and throat (ENT) waiting times at Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 2,983 people were on the Ear, nose and throat (ENT) at Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (70%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Ear, nose and throat (ENT) across England

People waiting
2,983
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
70.4%
England: 59%
Over 52 weeks
18
Median wait
13 wks
Published median for this list

18 people (0.6%, roughly 1 in 167) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 11.4 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 9.1% of everyone waiting at Countess of Chester 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 35.3 percentage points (35% to 70%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 9.3 points over 3 months (61.1% in March 2026); up 33.4 points over 6 months (37.0% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +35.3 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 202535.1%
August 202532.4%
September 202535.3%
October 202535.7%
November 202535.7%
December 202537%
January 202638.7%
February 202647%
March 202661.1%
April 202665.2%
May 202668.5%
June 202670.4%

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 Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20255,53535.1%739
August 20255,26432.4%671
September 20255,19835.3%693
October 20255,09535.7%696
November 20254,80735.7%583
December 20254,48637.0%352
January 20264,22738.7%235
February 20263,81447.0%208
March 20263,15461.1%21
April 20263,33065.2%18
May 20263,18268.5%14
June 20262,98370.4%18

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
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust13.8 mi4,06256%-14.4 pp
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust14.1 mi5,35353%-17.1 pp
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust15.3 mi7,01264%-6.7 pp
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust17.4 mi3,44057%-13.5 pp
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust18.6 mi4,66263%-7.8 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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