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Ear, nose and throat (ENT) waiting times at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 14,099 people were on the Ear, nose and throat (ENT) at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 4 in 10 people (40%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Ear, nose and throat (ENT) across England

People waiting
14,099
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
40.4%
England: 56.8%
Over 52 weeks
2,291
Median wait
25 wks
Published median for this list

2,291 people (16.2%, roughly 1 in 6) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 16.4 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 8.5% of everyone waiting at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

Ear, nose and throat (ENT), NHS England Referral to Treatment figures, April 2024 to August 2026.

18-week performance improved

Published 18-week performance for Ear, nose and throat (ENT) at this organisation has improved over the past 12 months: 40.4% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 36.5% at the end of August 2025.

Share of people on the waiting list who had been waiting under 18 weeks, at the end of each month. Scale runs from 0% to 100%.
Latest · August 2026
40.4%
3 months earlier · May 2026
38.6% then · change to latest +1.9 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
36.4% then · change to latest +4.1 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
36.5% then · change to latest +4 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
43.1% then · change to latest -2.7 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202640.4%14,099
July 202638.2%14,695
June 202637.8%15,733
May 202638.6%16,108
April 202636.6%16,708
March 202637.1%16,448
February 202636.4%16,420
January 202636.8%15,899
December 202535.7%16,004
November 202537.6%15,623
October 202538.7%15,140
September 202537.7%15,185
August 202536.5%15,754
July 202535.1%15,902
June 202534.6%16,522
May 202534.7%16,625
April 202531%17,307
March 202532.7%17,286
February 202534.3%17,083
January 202533.5%16,705
December 202435.4%16,864
November 202435.2%16,822
October 202434.7%16,384
September 202435.9%15,370
August 202437.4%15,131
July 202442%14,091
June 202441.4%14,725
May 202444%14,257
April 202443.1%13,847
How we calculate change
  • Each month's figure is the number of people waiting under 18 weeks divided by everyone on the waiting list, from NHS England's published monthly files.
  • Changes compare the latest month with exactly 3, 6 and 12 months earlier, only where both months are published and the list has at least 50 people.
  • The 12-month label is "improved" or "deteriorated" only if the share moved by 3 percentage points or more; smaller moves are called "broadly stable".
  • Where NHS England reissued a month's file, we use the revised file. Months we do not have are left as gaps and never estimated.
  • Earlier months come from our archive of NHS England's published files and are checked against our current figures wherever both exist.

What these figures cannot tell you

  • These are whole-list figures for one specialty at one organisation. They describe the published waiting list, not how long any one person will wait.
  • This specialty covers many conditions and treatments. These figures are not specific to any one operation or condition.
  • Figures are published for the whole organisation, which may run several hospital sites. They do not show the position at any single site.
  • Patients are prioritised by clinical need, so people on the same list can wait very different times.
  • A higher share within 18 weeks is not a measure of the quality of care.

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 Trust13.6 mi4,84067%+26.6 pp
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust21.3 mi6,11053%+12.1 pp
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust21.9 mi4,46963%+23 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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