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Ear, nose and throat (ENT) waiting times at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 3,598 people were on the Ear, nose and throat (ENT) at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (81%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
3,598
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
81.2%
England: 59%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
8 wks
Published median for this list

No one on this list had been waiting more than 52 weeks in June 2026.

This hospital's published position is 22.2 percentage points better than 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 7.6% of everyone waiting at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 8.5 percentage points (73% to 81%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 2.9 points over 3 months (78.3% in March 2026); up 6.4 points over 6 months (74.8% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +8.5 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 202572.7%
August 202570.5%
September 202572.2%
October 202570.9%
November 202573.4%
December 202574.8%
January 202675.4%
February 202676.3%
March 202678.3%
April 202678.3%
May 202679.2%
June 202681.2%

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 Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20255,35672.7%143
August 20255,21570.5%135
September 20254,80772.2%97
October 20254,53570.9%81
November 20254,39273.4%42
December 20254,35874.8%38
January 20264,00275.4%21
February 20263,88776.3%16
March 20263,83878.3%1
April 20263,70478.3%0
May 20263,62779.2%0
June 20263,59881.2%0

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
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust10.7 mi3,17168%-12.8 pp
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust12.6 mi4,43852%-29.5 pp
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust14 mi4,92252%-29.7 pp
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust18.1 mi9,32855%-26.2 pp
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust21.2 mi8,91159%-22.4 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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