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Ear, nose and throat (ENT) waiting times at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 3,085 people were on the Ear, nose and throat (ENT) at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (51%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Ear, nose and throat (ENT) across England

People waiting
3,085
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
51.1%
England: 59%
Over 52 weeks
68
Median wait
18 wks
Published median for this list

68 people (2.2%, roughly 1 in 45) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 7.9 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; the published median wait and 52-week count for this list; the other services this organisation reports. This service accounts for 12.3% of everyone waiting at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks stayed broadly stable (51% to 51%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (49.7% in March 2026); up 7.6 points over 6 months (43.5% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Broadly stable · +0.1 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 202551%
August 202552.3%
September 202548.2%
October 202546.3%
November 202544.8%
December 202543.5%
January 202642.7%
February 202644.9%
March 202649.7%
April 202650.2%
May 202650.9%
June 202651.1%

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 The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20252,78251.0%72
August 20252,86852.3%69
September 20253,01748.2%64
October 20253,20846.3%42
November 20253,31744.8%55
December 20253,22843.5%71
January 20263,35142.7%115
February 20263,17944.9%93
March 20263,07949.7%61
April 20263,22450.2%76
May 20263,18650.9%99
June 20263,08551.1%68

Other NHS trusts offering ear, nose and throat (ent) within 25 miles

No other NHS trust within 25 miles reported this service in the latest month.

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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