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Ear, nose and throat (ENT) waiting times at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 9,328 people were on the Ear, nose and throat (ENT) at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (55%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Ear, nose and throat (ENT) across England

People waiting
9,328
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
55.0%
England: 59%
Over 52 weeks
364
Median wait
16 wks
Published median for this list

364 people (3.9%, roughly 1 in 26) 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 7% of everyone waiting at Northern Care Alliance 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 9.6 percentage points (45% to 55%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (55.5% in March 2026); up 7.7 points over 6 months (47.3% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +9.6 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 202545.4%
August 202545%
September 202547.3%
October 202547.4%
November 202547.9%
December 202547.3%
January 202647.8%
February 202649.6%
March 202655.5%
April 202657.7%
May 202657%
June 202655%

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 Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202510,30545.4%528
August 202510,57345.0%542
September 202510,30047.3%437
October 202510,09147.4%392
November 20259,84547.9%354
December 20259,10747.3%372
January 20269,16747.8%369
February 20269,00449.6%381
March 20268,66155.5%368
April 20268,88657.7%361
May 20269,20457.0%403
June 20269,32855.0%364

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
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust4.3 mi8,91159%+3.8 pp
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust6.3 mi4,43852%-3.3 pp
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust10.4 mi1,97963%+8.4 pp
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust10.7 mi3,97261%+6.4 pp
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust13.5 mi4,92252%-3.5 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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