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Ear, nose and throat (ENT) waiting times at The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

At the end of August 2026, 3,311 people were on the Ear, nose and throat (ENT) at The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (69%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust · NHS trust · Ear, nose and throat (ENT) across England

People waiting
3,311
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
69.3%
England: 56.8%
Over 52 weeks
36
Median wait
13 wks
Published median for this list

36 people (1.1%, roughly 1 in 91) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 12.5 percentage points better than 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 8.2% of everyone waiting at The Princess Alexandra Hospital 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 improved

Published 18-week performance for Ear, nose and throat (ENT) at this organisation has improved over the past 12 months: 69.3% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 43.6% 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
69.3%
3 months earlier · May 2026
60.8% then · change to latest +8.6 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
29.8% then · change to latest +39.5 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
43.6% then · change to latest +25.8 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
34.3% then · change to latest +35 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202669.3%3,311
July 202670%3,297
June 202667.1%3,267
May 202660.8%3,191
April 202655.2%3,180
March 202653.7%3,596
February 202629.8%3,070
January 202626.9%3,141
December 202527.8%3,055
November 202531.9%2,747
October 202539.6%2,593
September 202543%2,511
August 202543.6%2,651
July 202545.4%2,674
June 202541.3%2,951
May 202543.3%3,160
April 202547.5%5,121
March 202546.1%5,714
February 202542.3%6,068
January 202539.4%6,900
December 202437.5%3,410
November 202438.9%3,303
October 202439.4%2,217
September 202439.5%2,437
August 202439%2,761
July 202434.6%2,830
June 202439.3%2,382
May 202437.8%2,385
April 202434.3%2,199
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
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust14.5 mi4,46963%-5.9 pp
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust16.3 mi2,50566%-3.5 pp
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust16.6 mi6,06155%-14.3 pp
Whittington Health NHS Trust17.2 mi2,60650%-19.5 pp
Barts Health NHS Trust18.6 mi6,00651%-18.8 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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