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Ear, nose and throat (ENT) waiting times at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 5,637 people were on the Ear, nose and throat (ENT) at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (66%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Ear, nose and throat (ENT) across England

People waiting
5,637
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
66.0%
England: 59%
Over 52 weeks
55
Median wait
14 wks
Published median for this list

55 people (1.0%, roughly 1 in 100) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 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 8% of everyone waiting at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals 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 26.5 percentage points (40% to 66%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 4.9 points over 3 months (70.9% in March 2026); up 11.4 points over 6 months (54.6% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +26.5 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 202539.5%
August 202538%
September 202537.7%
October 202538.2%
November 202552.2%
December 202554.6%
January 202660.4%
February 202667.8%
March 202670.9%
April 202670.8%
May 202669.3%
June 202666%

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 Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20259,32739.5%734
August 20259,35338.0%820
September 20259,44437.7%866
October 20259,50838.2%838
November 20256,99752.2%608
December 20256,80454.6%479
January 20264,78360.4%352
February 20264,51167.8%199
March 20264,99470.9%137
April 20265,28170.8%104
May 20265,45469.3%78
June 20265,63766.0%55

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
James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust21.2 mi3,55743%-22.9 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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