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

At the end of June 2026, 3,595 people were on the Ear, nose and throat (ENT) at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (73%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
3,595
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
73.0%
England: 59%
Over 52 weeks
49
Median wait
11 wks
Published median for this list

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

This hospital's published position is 14 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; the published median wait and 52-week count for this list; the other services this organisation reports. This service accounts for 10.1% of everyone waiting at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay 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 12.4 percentage points (61% to 73%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 3.7 points over 3 months (69.3% in March 2026); up 11.5 points over 6 months (61.5% 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 202560.6%
August 202558.6%
September 202560.9%
October 202561.4%
November 202562.1%
December 202561.5%
January 202662%
February 202663.4%
March 202669.3%
April 202672%
May 202670.7%
June 202673%

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 Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20254,65360.6%76
August 20254,37158.6%66
September 20254,45460.9%54
October 20254,32161.4%75
November 20254,27962.1%70
December 20254,06361.5%47
January 20264,00862.0%32
February 20263,81663.4%37
March 20263,75969.3%39
April 20263,76672.0%45
May 20263,60970.7%42
June 20263,59573.0%49

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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