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Ear, nose and throat (ENT) waiting times at North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 7,808 people were on the Ear, nose and throat (ENT) at North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (56%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Ear, nose and throat (ENT) across England

People waiting
7,808
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
55.8%
England: 59%
Over 52 weeks
31
Median wait
16 wks
Published median for this list

31 people (0.4%, roughly 1 in 250) 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 10.3% of everyone waiting at North West Anglia 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 8.5 percentage points (47% to 56%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (57.4% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (54.6% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +8.5 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 202547.3%
August 202548.1%
September 202549.7%
October 202550.5%
November 202552.1%
December 202554.6%
January 202654.3%
February 202656.5%
March 202657.4%
April 202654.2%
May 202654.5%
June 202655.8%

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 West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20257,87447.3%224
August 20257,66548.1%128
September 20257,30849.7%93
October 20257,30450.5%58
November 20257,21652.1%50
December 20257,11754.6%19
January 20266,87554.3%36
February 20266,90556.5%22
March 20267,14857.4%15
April 20267,47654.2%43
May 20267,68154.5%52
June 20267,80855.8%31

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
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust23.1 mi2,42554%-1.6 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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