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Ear, nose and throat (ENT) waiting times at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 10,396 people were on the Ear, nose and throat (ENT) at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (56%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Ear, nose and throat (ENT) across England

People waiting
10,396
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
56.1%
England: 59%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
16 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 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 11.6% of everyone waiting at East Suffolk and North Essex 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 7 percentage points (49% to 56%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 2.7 points over 3 months (53.4% in March 2026); up 10.7 points over 6 months (45.4% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +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 202549.1%
August 202548.7%
September 202548%
October 202546.1%
November 202545.6%
December 202545.4%
January 202647.1%
February 202651.4%
March 202653.4%
April 202655%
May 202656%
June 202656.1%

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 Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202510,41949.1%273
August 202510,31848.7%243
September 202510,62848.0%194
October 202510,95246.1%236
November 202510,69245.6%243
December 202510,59445.4%242
January 202610,11147.1%241
February 20269,83451.4%158
March 20269,92053.4%10
April 202610,01855.0%1
May 202610,28956.0%2
June 202610,39656.1%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
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust23.6 mi3,00870%+13.9 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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