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Ear, nose and throat (ENT) waiting times at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 7,012 people were on the Ear, nose and throat (ENT) at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (64%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
7,012
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
63.7%
England: 59%
Over 52 weeks
88
Median wait
14 wks
Published median for this list

88 people (1.3%, roughly 1 in 77) 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 8.6% of everyone waiting at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching 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 9.3 percentage points (54% to 64%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 4.2 points over 3 months (67.9% in March 2026); up 7.6 points over 6 months (56.1% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +9.3 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 202554.4%
August 202554.4%
September 202555.8%
October 202555%
November 202554.9%
December 202556.1%
January 202656.5%
February 202661.9%
March 202667.9%
April 202666.4%
May 202666.9%
June 202663.7%

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 Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20257,83754.4%305
August 20257,83754.4%380
September 20257,96555.8%413
October 20257,74555.0%382
November 20257,27454.9%328
December 20257,11756.1%271
January 20266,96656.5%208
February 20266,59461.9%167
March 20266,37167.9%133
April 20266,46466.4%90
May 20266,62766.9%92
June 20267,01263.7%88

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
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust7.4 mi5,35353%-10.4 pp
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust7.4 mi3,44057%-6.8 pp
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust11.4 mi4,92252%-12.1 pp
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust13.3 mi4,06256%-7.7 pp
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust15.3 mi2,98370%+6.7 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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