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Ear, nose and throat (ENT) waiting times at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 4,062 people were on the Ear, nose and throat (ENT) at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (56%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Ear, nose and throat (ENT) across England

People waiting
4,062
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
56.0%
England: 59%
Over 52 weeks
27
Median wait
16 wks
Published median for this list

27 people (0.7%, roughly 1 in 143) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is broadly in line with the England picture 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% of everyone waiting at Wirral University Teaching Hospital 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 11.4 percentage points (45% to 56%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (55.1% in March 2026); up 11.7 points over 6 months (44.3% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +11.4 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 202544.6%
August 202543.3%
September 202544%
October 202543.3%
November 202542.8%
December 202544.3%
January 202645.4%
February 202648.4%
March 202655.1%
April 202657.9%
May 202657.2%
June 202656%

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 Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20254,91844.6%477
August 20254,89043.3%439
September 20254,80944.0%368
October 20254,72143.3%409
November 20254,64442.8%358
December 20254,59544.3%235
January 20264,54845.4%248
February 20264,46548.4%262
March 20264,15855.1%60
April 20263,93457.9%49
May 20264,04557.2%36
June 20264,06256.0%27

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
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust6.1 mi5,35353%-2.6 pp
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust13.3 mi7,01264%+7.7 pp
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust13.8 mi2,98370%+14.4 pp
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust20.1 mi3,44057%+0.9 pp
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust23.2 mi4,92252%-4.4 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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