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Ear, nose and throat (ENT) waiting times at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 9,247 people were on the Ear, nose and throat (ENT) at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (47%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Ear, nose and throat (ENT) across England

People waiting
9,247
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
47.0%
England: 59%
Over 52 weeks
248
Median wait
20 wks
Published median for this list

248 people (2.7%, roughly 1 in 37) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 12 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 11.2% of everyone waiting at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 7.7 percentage points (55% to 47%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 3.3 points over 3 months (50.3% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (46.9% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -7.7 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 202554.7%
August 202552.5%
September 202550.9%
October 202549.8%
November 202548.5%
December 202546.9%
January 202647.2%
February 202648.5%
March 202650.3%
April 202649.4%
May 202648.9%
June 202647%

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 Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20258,24754.7%238
August 20258,21252.5%212
September 20258,13350.9%202
October 20258,06349.8%193
November 20258,09548.5%184
December 20258,19046.9%209
January 20268,31547.2%189
February 20268,47848.5%161
March 20268,64150.3%164
April 20268,94149.4%169
May 20269,07648.9%191
June 20269,24747.0%248

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
Medway NHS Foundation Trust24.8 mi4,44675%+27.6 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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