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Ear, nose and throat (ENT) waiting times at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 8,158 people were on the Ear, nose and throat (ENT) at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (50%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust · NHS trust · Ear, nose and throat (ENT) across England

People waiting
8,158
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
50.4%
England: 59%
Over 52 weeks
195
Median wait
18 wks
Published median for this list

195 people (2.4%, roughly 1 in 42) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 8.6 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 13.9% of everyone waiting at Worcestershire Acute 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 8.6 percentage points (42% to 50%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (51.6% in March 2026); up 8.2 points over 6 months (42.2% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +8.6 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 202541.8%
August 202541.9%
September 202543%
October 202542.4%
November 202541.3%
December 202542.2%
January 202643.4%
February 202644.6%
March 202651.6%
April 202650.8%
May 202650%
June 202650.4%

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 Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20257,82241.8%291
August 20258,01841.9%266
September 20258,34943.0%225
October 20258,59642.4%232
November 20258,64341.3%246
December 20258,41942.2%293
January 20267,88743.4%356
February 20267,47544.6%335
March 20267,37951.6%263
April 20267,63050.8%248
May 20267,88750.0%263
June 20268,15850.4%195

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
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust20.6 mi8,51969%+18.3 pp
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust21.2 mi5,53160%+9.9 pp
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust21.6 mi4,76660%+9.5 pp
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust22.9 mi7,41443%-7.4 pp
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust23.6 mi30%-50.4 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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