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

At the end of June 2026, 3,240 people were on the Ear, nose and throat (ENT) at Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (60%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
3,240
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
59.8%
England: 59%
Over 52 weeks
37
Median wait
15 wks
Published median for this list

37 people (1.1%, roughly 1 in 91) 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 10.4% of everyone waiting at Royal Surrey 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 7.6 percentage points (52% to 60%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (60.0% in March 2026); up 3.4 points over 6 months (56.4% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +7.6 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 202552.2%
August 202552.3%
September 202552%
October 202549.8%
November 202553.7%
December 202556.4%
January 202658%
February 202658.7%
March 202660%
April 202658.9%
May 202658.4%
June 202659.8%

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 Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20253,29152.2%90
August 20253,19352.3%85
September 20253,11352.0%85
October 20253,10749.8%63
November 20253,11653.7%66
December 20253,13456.4%51
January 20263,23058.0%51
February 20263,22058.7%69
March 20263,15260.0%53
April 20263,27058.9%38
May 20263,27158.4%38
June 20263,24059.8%37

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
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust8 mi5,21267%+7.4 pp
Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust10.1 mi4,36960%+0.2 pp
Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust18.5 mi3,93764%+4.3 pp
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust19.3 mi5,95861%+1 pp
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust20.7 mi3,79052%-7.7 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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