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Ear, nose and throat (ENT) waiting times at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 7,174 people were on the Ear, nose and throat (ENT) at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (52%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
7,174
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
52.2%
England: 59%
Over 52 weeks
240
Median wait
17 wks
Published median for this list

240 people (3.3%, roughly 1 in 30) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 6.8 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 6.2% of everyone waiting at University Hospitals of Leicester 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 12.4 percentage points (40% to 52%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (51.0% in March 2026); up 7.9 points over 6 months (44.3% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +12.4 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 202539.8%
August 202537.1%
September 202539.2%
October 202546.4%
November 202546.6%
December 202544.3%
January 202644.3%
February 202648%
March 202651%
April 202650.5%
May 202651.8%
June 202652.2%

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 of Leicester NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20256,84739.8%335
August 20256,80537.1%351
September 20256,66839.2%320
October 20257,13446.4%258
November 20256,75946.6%275
December 20256,46144.3%221
January 20266,52944.3%266
February 20267,04748.0%228
March 20266,89651.0%201
April 20267,03150.5%251
May 20267,25451.8%253
June 20267,17452.2%240

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
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust16.4 mi2,26140%-12.5 pp
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust19.1 mi9,02540%-11.9 pp
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust22 mi8,16765%+12.5 pp
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust22.7 mi2,42554%+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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