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Ear, nose and throat (ENT) waiting times at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 703 people were on the Ear, nose and throat (ENT) at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (79%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Ear, nose and throat (ENT) across England

People waiting
703
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
78.7%
England: 59%
Over 52 weeks
1
Median wait
7 wks
Published median for this list

1 people (0.1%, roughly 1 in 1000) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 19.7 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 0.8% of everyone waiting at King's College Hospital 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 10.1 percentage points (89% to 79%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 6.9 points over 3 months (85.6% in March 2026); down 15.2 points over 6 months (93.9% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -10.1 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 202588.8%
August 202591.5%
September 202592.5%
October 202591.9%
November 202591.7%
December 202593.9%
January 202693%
February 202683.6%
March 202685.6%
April 202685.4%
May 202670.9%
June 202678.7%

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 King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202537588.8%0
August 202534191.5%0
September 202538692.5%0
October 202538591.9%2
November 202534891.7%4
December 202529593.9%0
January 202629993.0%1
February 202637283.6%0
March 202643185.6%1
April 202649385.4%1
May 202662270.9%0
June 202670378.7%1

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
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust2.3 mi5,68560%-19 pp
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust3.4 mi8,92353%-25.9 pp
Barts Health NHS Trust3.8 mi6,24646%-32.2 pp
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust3.9 mi5,61355%-24 pp
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust4.4 mi6,95360%-18.9 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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