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Ear, nose and throat (ENT) waiting times at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 6,514 people were on the Ear, nose and throat (ENT) at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (51%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Ear, nose and throat (ENT) across England

People waiting
6,514
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
50.5%
England: 59%
Over 52 weeks
275
Median wait
18 wks
Published median for this list

275 people (4.2%, roughly 1 in 24) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 8.5 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 12% of everyone waiting at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching 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 9.3 percentage points (41% to 51%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (51.4% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (51.8% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +9.3 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 202541.2%
August 202542.3%
September 202545.3%
October 202545.8%
November 202549.1%
December 202551.8%
January 202650.4%
February 202650.6%
March 202651.4%
April 202649.5%
May 202649.5%
June 202650.5%

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 Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20257,31541.2%574
August 20256,90442.3%597
September 20256,21145.3%459
October 20256,05445.8%383
November 20255,69749.1%214
December 20255,59251.8%166
January 20265,64750.4%163
February 20265,78450.6%159
March 20265,89551.4%111
April 20266,11949.5%154
May 20266,27349.5%199
June 20266,51450.5%275

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
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust12.6 mi2,40173%+22.4 pp
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust16.2 mi3,45665%+14.8 pp
Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust19.2 mi7,35258%+7.4 pp
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust23.5 mi2,56068%+17 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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