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Ear, nose and throat (ENT) waiting times at Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust

At the end of July 2026, 4,603 people were on the Ear, nose and throat (ENT) at Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (54%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust · NHS trust · Ear, nose and throat (ENT) across England

People waiting
4,603
End of July 2026
Under 18 weeks
53.7%
England: 56.8%
Over 52 weeks
64
Median wait
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Published median for this list

64 people (1.4%, roughly 1 in 71) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

We do not have both figures for this service, so we are not making a comparison.

Why this page exists

This page combines facts that neither the organisation page nor the England specialty page shows on its own: other NHS trusts within 25 miles reporting the same service.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and July 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 5 percentage points (49% to 54%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (53.8% in April 2026); up 3.7 points over 6 months (50.0% in January 2026); up 5 points over 12 months (48.7% in July 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

18-week performance improving · +5 points

Percentage of people seen within 18 weeks, over the last 13 published months.

View these figures as a table
Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202548.7%
August 202547.5%
September 202545.6%
October 202548.1%
November 202548.6%
December 202549.5%
January 202650%
February 202650%
March 202654.5%
April 202653.8%
May 202654.7%
June 202652.5%
July 202653.7%

Changes of less than 3 percentage points in the share waiting under 18 weeks are treated as broadly stable. This describes the whole waiting list, not how long any one person waits.

Month-by-month figures
Monthly Ear, nose and throat (ENT) figures at Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20255,33048.7%125
August 20255,40147.5%208
September 20255,54345.6%269
October 20255,34248.1%149
November 20255,18748.6%85
December 20255,10749.5%55
January 20265,35950.0%195
February 20265,66050.0%319
March 20265,42554.5%278
April 20265,18253.8%255
May 20265,34154.7%232
June 20265,04052.5%147
July 20264,60353.7%64

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 Trust13 mi3,36365%—
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust15.8 mi4,77945%—

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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