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Ear, nose and throat (ENT) waiting times at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 5,727 people were on the Ear, nose and throat (ENT) at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (58%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust · NHS trust · Ear, nose and throat (ENT) across England

People waiting
5,727
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
57.8%
England: 59%
Over 52 weeks
30
Median wait
15 wks
Published median for this list

30 people (0.5%, roughly 1 in 200) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is broadly in line with the England picture 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 10.7% of everyone waiting at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 2.8 percentage points (61% to 58%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 3.3 points over 3 months (61.1% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (56.0% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -2.8 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 202560.6%
August 202555.7%
September 202554.8%
October 202555%
November 202554.9%
December 202556%
January 202655.2%
February 202656.3%
March 202661.1%
April 202658.7%
May 202658.3%
June 202657.8%

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 East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20254,82660.6%15
August 20255,00155.7%14
September 20255,35254.8%8
October 20255,67055.0%14
November 20255,73954.9%16
December 20255,73156.0%29
January 20265,89755.2%36
February 20265,83456.3%48
March 20265,77061.1%40
April 20265,81358.7%55
May 20265,72458.3%43
June 20265,72757.8%30

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
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust11.4 mi7,72456%-1.5 pp
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust16.6 mi3,26767%+9.3 pp
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust20.7 mi3,17647%-10.6 pp
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust22.9 mi3,64854%-4.2 pp
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust23.4 mi4,60353%-4.6 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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