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Ear, nose and throat (ENT) waiting times at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 8,519 people were on the Ear, nose and throat (ENT) at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (69%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
8,519
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
68.7%
England: 59%
Over 52 weeks
121
Median wait
12 wks
Published median for this list

121 people (1.4%, roughly 1 in 71) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 9.7 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 9.1% of everyone waiting at University Hospitals Birmingham 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 37.5 percentage points (31% to 69%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 6.2 points over 3 months (62.5% in March 2026); up 20 points over 6 months (48.7% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +37.5 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 202531.2%
August 202534.1%
September 202539.4%
October 202541.6%
November 202543.4%
December 202548.7%
January 202650.1%
February 202656.2%
March 202662.5%
April 202663.7%
May 202667%
June 202668.7%

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 University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202513,53131.2%2,299
August 202512,32834.1%1,862
September 202511,97139.4%1,551
October 202510,63241.6%1,224
November 20259,70043.4%965
December 20258,91748.7%516
January 20268,12450.1%356
February 20268,08056.2%247
March 20267,76562.5%178
April 20267,93663.7%125
May 20268,25667.0%103
June 20268,51968.7%121

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
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust2.7 mi7,41443%-25.7 pp
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust3.1 mi30%-68.7 pp
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust8.1 mi4,76660%-8.9 pp
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust9.3 mi2,71671%+1.8 pp
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust12.1 mi6,49456%-12.8 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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