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Ear, nose and throat (ENT) waiting times at West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 3,176 people were on the Ear, nose and throat (ENT) at West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (47%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
3,176
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
47.2%
England: 59%
Over 52 weeks
160
Median wait
20 wks
Published median for this list

160 people (5.0%, roughly 1 in 20) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 11.8 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 7.1% of everyone waiting at West Hertfordshire 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 3.6 percentage points (44% to 47%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 5.5 points over 3 months (41.7% in March 2026); up 4 points over 6 months (43.2% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +3.6 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 202543.6%
August 202542.8%
September 202544%
October 202544.5%
November 202545.3%
December 202543.2%
January 202644.4%
February 202643.2%
March 202641.7%
April 202643.7%
May 202646.6%
June 202647.2%

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 West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20253,32143.6%152
August 20253,23542.8%150
September 20253,08744.0%130
October 20253,17444.5%123
November 20253,10845.3%133
December 20253,15743.2%145
January 20263,03244.4%109
February 20263,16843.2%158
March 20263,16741.7%127
April 20263,29443.7%194
May 20263,28946.6%199
June 20263,17647.2%160

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
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust6.2 mi8,15056%+9.2 pp
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust8.8 mi3,79052%+4.9 pp
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust9.4 mi4,76363%+15.6 pp
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust12.2 mi10,13860%+12.5 pp
Whittington Health NHS Trust12.7 mi2,36662%+14.4 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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