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

At the end of August 2026, 6,061 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 (55%) 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
6,061
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
55.1%
England: 56.8%
Over 52 weeks
61
Median wait
16 wks
Published median for this list

61 people (1.0%, roughly 1 in 100) 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 10.5% of everyone waiting at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

Ear, nose and throat (ENT), NHS England Referral to Treatment figures, April 2024 to August 2026.

18-week performance broadly stable

Published 18-week performance for Ear, nose and throat (ENT) at this organisation has been broadly stable over the past 12 months (a change of under 3 percentage points): 55.1% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 55.7% at the end of August 2025.

Share of people on the waiting list who had been waiting under 18 weeks, at the end of each month. Scale runs from 0% to 100%.
Latest · August 2026
55.1%
3 months earlier · May 2026
58.3% then · change to latest -3.3 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
56.3% then · change to latest -1.3 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
55.7% then · change to latest -0.6 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
53.8% then · change to latest +1.2 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202655.1%6,061
July 202658%5,808
June 202657.8%5,727
May 202658.3%5,724
April 202658.7%5,813
March 202661.1%5,770
February 202656.3%5,834
January 202655.2%5,897
December 202556%5,731
November 202554.9%5,739
October 202555%5,670
September 202554.8%5,352
August 202555.7%5,001
July 202560.6%4,826
June 202563.6%5,031
May 202564.5%5,298
April 202562.9%5,916
March 202562.7%6,268
February 202563.5%6,028
January 202562.9%5,915
December 202461.7%5,776
November 202461.7%5,871
October 202461.7%5,632
September 202462.9%5,136
August 202462.3%4,996
July 202460.5%5,249
June 202459.6%5,326
May 202459.3%5,300
April 202453.8%5,266
How we calculate change
  • Each month's figure is the number of people waiting under 18 weeks divided by everyone on the waiting list, from NHS England's published monthly files.
  • Changes compare the latest month with exactly 3, 6 and 12 months earlier, only where both months are published and the list has at least 50 people.
  • The 12-month label is "improved" or "deteriorated" only if the share moved by 3 percentage points or more; smaller moves are called "broadly stable".
  • Where NHS England reissued a month's file, we use the revised file. Months we do not have are left as gaps and never estimated.
  • Earlier months come from our archive of NHS England's published files and are checked against our current figures wherever both exist.

What these figures cannot tell you

  • These are whole-list figures for one specialty at one organisation. They describe the published waiting list, not how long any one person will wait.
  • This specialty covers many conditions and treatments. These figures are not specific to any one operation or condition.
  • Figures are published for the whole organisation, which may run several hospital sites. They do not show the position at any single site.
  • Patients are prioritised by clinical need, so people on the same list can wait very different times.
  • A higher share within 18 weeks is not a measure of the quality of care.

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 mi8,57453%-1.7 pp
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust16.6 mi3,31169%+14.3 pp
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust20.7 mi3,09547%-8.1 pp
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust22.9 mi3,48155%-0.1 pp
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust23.4 mi4,77945%-10.4 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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