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Ear, nose and throat (ENT) waiting times at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 10,138 people were on the Ear, nose and throat (ENT) at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (60%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Ear, nose and throat (ENT) across England

People waiting
10,138
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
59.7%
England: 59%
Over 52 weeks
229
Median wait
15 wks
Published median for this list

229 people (2.3%, roughly 1 in 43) 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 7.3% of everyone waiting at Royal Free London 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 3.9 percentage points (56% to 60%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (61.6% in March 2026); up 3.2 points over 6 months (56.5% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +3.9 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 202555.8%
August 202555%
September 202557.2%
October 202556.5%
November 202554.7%
December 202556.5%
January 202656.3%
February 202657%
March 202661.6%
April 202659.8%
May 202660%
June 202659.7%

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 Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202511,22355.8%554
August 202510,79155.0%427
September 202510,32857.2%429
October 202510,28156.5%328
November 202510,81154.7%263
December 202510,62256.5%250
January 202610,58456.3%257
February 202610,59957.0%323
March 202610,16061.6%193
April 202610,52859.8%313
May 202610,36360.0%248
June 202610,13859.7%229

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
Whittington Health NHS Trust1.5 mi2,36662%+1.9 pp
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust2.2 mi6,95360%0 pp
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust2.5 mi7,60563%+2.9 pp
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust4.3 mi5,68560%-0.1 pp
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust4.8 mi5,61355%-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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