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Ear, nose and throat (ENT) waiting times at Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 3,015 people were on the Ear, nose and throat (ENT) at Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (54%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
3,015
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
53.7%
England: 59%
Over 52 weeks
58
Median wait
17 wks
Published median for this list

58 people (1.9%, roughly 1 in 53) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 5.3 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 13.3% of everyone waiting at Dorset County 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 5.4 percentage points (48% to 54%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (54.9% in March 2026); up 3 points over 6 months (50.7% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +5.4 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 202548.3%
August 202547.4%
September 202548.4%
October 202549.7%
November 202549.4%
December 202550.7%
January 202652.1%
February 202650.2%
March 202654.9%
April 202653.4%
May 202654%
June 202653.7%

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 Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20253,09148.3%44
August 20253,16747.4%41
September 20253,08448.4%40
October 20253,04249.7%29
November 20252,98049.4%40
December 20252,99750.7%48
January 20263,03252.1%61
February 20262,95650.2%53
March 20262,88354.9%37
April 20262,96053.4%48
May 20262,99954.0%55
June 20263,01553.7%58

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
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust20.7 mi6,04960%+6.7 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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