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Ear, nose and throat (ENT) waiting times at United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 9,928 people were on the Ear, nose and throat (ENT) at United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (49%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust · NHS trust · Ear, nose and throat (ENT) across England

People waiting
9,928
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
48.7%
England: 59%
Over 52 weeks
154
Median wait
19 wks
Published median for this list

154 people (1.6%, roughly 1 in 63) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 10.3 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 14.1% of everyone waiting at United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 9.8 percentage points (39% to 49%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (50.4% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (49.0% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +9.8 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 202538.9%
August 202539.7%
September 202546.2%
October 202545.8%
November 202546.4%
December 202549%
January 202650.4%
February 202648.9%
March 202650.4%
April 202649%
May 202650%
June 202648.7%

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 United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20257,52538.9%374
August 20257,33039.7%339
September 20257,65046.2%288
October 20257,61645.8%287
November 20257,31746.4%257
December 20257,52549.0%164
January 20268,24450.4%109
February 20268,75548.9%67
March 20268,99350.4%64
April 20269,46449.0%81
May 20269,71550.0%74
June 20269,92848.7%154

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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