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Ear, nose and throat (ENT) waiting times at Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of August 2026, 7,468 people were on the Ear, nose and throat (ENT) at Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 4 in 10 people (39%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust · NHS trust · Ear, nose and throat (ENT) across England

People waiting
7,468
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
38.6%
England: 56.8%
Over 52 weeks
210
Median wait
24 wks
Published median for this list

210 people (2.8%, roughly 1 in 36) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 18.2 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 11.1% of everyone waiting at Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

Ear, nose and throat (ENT), NHS England Referral to Treatment figures, April 2024 to August 2026.

18-week performance broadly stable

Published 18-week performance for Ear, nose and throat (ENT) at this organisation has been broadly stable over the past 12 months (a change of under 3 percentage points): 38.6% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 39.3% at the end of August 2025.

Share of people on the waiting list who had been waiting under 18 weeks, at the end of each month. Scale runs from 0% to 100%.
Latest · August 2026
38.6%
3 months earlier · May 2026
45% then · change to latest -6.4 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
44% then · change to latest -5.5 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
39.3% then · change to latest -0.8 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
37% then · change to latest +1.6 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202638.6%7,468
July 202641.2%7,516
June 202643%7,414
May 202645%7,211
April 202645.8%7,013
March 202647.6%6,860
February 202644%7,008
January 202639.1%6,544
December 202541.5%6,741
November 202540.6%7,069
October 202537.2%6,543
September 202541.7%6,826
August 202539.3%6,709
July 202541.1%6,450
June 202543.4%6,575
May 202545.6%6,833
April 202544.1%6,641
March 202543.1%6,364
February 202539.9%6,373
January 202539.1%6,778
December 202440.7%6,763
November 202441.5%6,643
October 202442.4%6,515
September 202441.9%6,357
August 202442.1%6,372
July 202442.1%6,419
June 202438.8%6,162
May 202438.2%6,528
April 202437%6,904
How we calculate change
  • Each month's figure is the number of people waiting under 18 weeks divided by everyone on the waiting list, from NHS England's published monthly files.
  • Changes compare the latest month with exactly 3, 6 and 12 months earlier, only where both months are published and the list has at least 50 people.
  • The 12-month label is "improved" or "deteriorated" only if the share moved by 3 percentage points or more; smaller moves are called "broadly stable".
  • Where NHS England reissued a month's file, we use the revised file. Months we do not have are left as gaps and never estimated.
  • Earlier months come from our archive of NHS England's published files and are checked against our current figures wherever both exist.

What these figures cannot tell you

  • These are whole-list figures for one specialty at one organisation. They describe the published waiting list, not how long any one person will wait.
  • This specialty covers many conditions and treatments. These figures are not specific to any one operation or condition.
  • Figures are published for the whole organisation, which may run several hospital sites. They do not show the position at any single site.
  • Patients are prioritised by clinical need, so people on the same list can wait very different times.
  • A higher share within 18 weeks is not a measure of the quality of care.

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
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust2.7 mi8,45068%+29.2 pp
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust6.6 mi2,74669%+30.1 pp
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust7.1 mi4,93351%+12.9 pp
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust9.7 mi6,33453%+14.2 pp
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust19.9 mi2,24240%+1.2 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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