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

At the end of June 2026, 5,040 people were on the Ear, nose and throat (ENT) at Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (53%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
5,040
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
52.5%
England: 59%
Over 52 weeks
147
Median wait
18 wks
Published median for this list

147 people (2.9%, roughly 1 in 34) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 6.5 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 12.7% of everyone waiting at Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 3.8 percentage points (49% to 53%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 2 points over 3 months (54.5% in March 2026); up 3 points over 6 months (49.5% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +3.8 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 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%

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 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

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 mi2,42554%+1.7 pp
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust15.8 mi4,60353%+0.6 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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