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Ear, nose and throat (ENT) waiting times at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 7,049 people were on the Ear, nose and throat (ENT) at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (55%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust · NHS trust · Ear, nose and throat (ENT) across England

People waiting
7,049
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
54.7%
England: 59%
Over 52 weeks
498
Median wait
16 wks
Published median for this list

498 people (7.1%, roughly 1 in 14) 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 12.2% of everyone waiting at Portsmouth Hospitals University 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 10.6 percentage points (44% to 55%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (53.2% in March 2026); up 9.2 points over 6 months (45.5% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +10.6 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 202544.1%
August 202542.5%
September 202542.9%
October 202543.3%
November 202545.6%
December 202545.5%
January 202646.2%
February 202650.6%
March 202653.2%
April 202652.3%
May 202655%
June 202654.7%

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 Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20258,27544.1%596
August 20258,35742.5%617
September 20258,68442.9%759
October 20258,44643.3%693
November 20258,36345.6%622
December 20258,02445.5%495
January 20267,96046.2%533
February 20267,56050.6%591
March 20266,91653.2%554
April 20266,88852.3%537
May 20266,97655.0%491
June 20267,04954.7%498

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
Isle of Wight NHS Trust14 mi1,00161%+6.8 pp
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust16.9 mi1,71861%+6.6 pp
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust20.8 mi51100%+45.3 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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