Hospital service waiting times

Ear, nose and throat (ENT) waiting times at North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 3,504 people were on the Ear, nose and throat (ENT) at North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (69%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Ear, nose and throat (ENT) across England

People waiting: 3,504; End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks: 69.0%; England: 59%
Over 52 weeks: 11
Median wait: 13 wks; Published median for this list

11 people (0.3%, roughly 1 in 333) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 10 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; the published median wait and 52-week count for this list; the other services this organisation reports. This service accounts for 10% of everyone waiting at North Cumbria Integrated Care 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 25.2 percentage points (44% to 69%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 3.8 points over 3 months (65.2% in March 2026); up 26.3 points over 6 months (42.7% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +25.2 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
Month	Within 18 weeks
July 2025	43.8%
August 2025	43.7%
September 2025	44.1%
October 2025	42.1%
November 2025	42%
December 2025	42.7%
January 2026	45.4%
February 2026	53.2%
March 2026	65.2%
April 2026	67.3%
May 2026	68.4%
June 2026	69%

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 North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
Month	Waiting	Under 18 weeks	Over 52 weeks
July 2025	4,673	43.8%	235
August 2025	4,612	43.7%	225
September 2025	4,632	44.1%	212
October 2025	4,611	42.1%	220
November 2025	4,539	42.0%	224
December 2025	4,473	42.7%	186
January 2026	4,303	45.4%	183
February 2026	3,971	53.2%	142
March 2026	3,608	65.2%	45
April 2026	3,639	67.3%	20
May 2026	3,706	68.4%	26
June 2026	3,504	69.0%	11

Other NHS trusts offering ear, nose and throat (ent) within 25 miles

No other NHS trust within 25 miles reported this service in the latest month.

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.

Related guides on this site

Work out how long you've waited
Explains how the 18-week measure is counted and what a published percentage represents.
How to switch hospitals for faster NHS treatment
Reference article on how hospital switching works within the NHS.
NHS patient choice explained
Background on the legal basis of NHS patient choice.
What happens after 52 weeks on a waiting list
Background on how year-plus waits are treated in NHS reporting.
How to use PALS about a waiting list
Reference article explaining what a Patient Advice and Liaison Service does.

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