Ear Nose and Throat waiting times at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (June 2026)

17week median wait · June 2026

Half of the 4,921 people on the ear nose and throat list here have been waiting longer than 17 weeks, half less. That is 2 weeks shorter than a year ago. It is about 2 weeks longer than the England average for this specialty. 212 of them have been waiting more than a year.

52%

seen within 18 weeks
(the standard is 92%)

weeks for the slowest 8% of the queue

134 / 155

shortest wait in England for this specialty

Which way it’s moving

2 weeks shorter than a year ago.

Median wait each month, 18 months to June 2026.

How the queue is spread

How the queue is spread, in four-week bands. The rule marks the 18-week standard. 44% of this queue is already past it.

Treating sooner nearby

Comparable providers within 75 miles reporting a shorter wait. You have a legal right to ask for any of them.

Provider	Miles	Median	Sooner by
The Living Care Group Leeds	61 miles	1 wk	17 wks
Spire Liverpool Hospital Liverpool	21 miles	6 wks	11 wks
Beacon Medical Services Group Limited Manchester	23 miles	7 wks	11 wks
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust Blackburn	18 miles	7 wks	10 wks
Buckshaw Hospital Chorley	11 miles	9 wks	8 wks

Other waits here

The same right to choose applies to every one of these. Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust reports 6 other specialties in the June 2026 figures.

Specialty	Waiting	Median
Trauma and Orthopaedic	8,954	14 wks
Other: Other Services	5,137	15 wks
Gastroenterology	4,418	16 wks
Gynaecology	2,986	13 wks
Cardiology	2,970	13 wks
Dermatology	2,856	11 wks

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Straight answers

About this figure

It’s about six weeks behind. NHS England publishes monthly, with a lag. This page shows June 2026.
It’s a trust-level average, not your wait. Your own wait depends on urgency, clinical need and which site you are treated at. Large trusts run several hospitals.
It counts people still waiting (incomplete pathways at month end), not people already treated.

This page presents official statistics and points to a right you already have. It isn’t medical advice, and it can’t tell you whether switching is right for you. Your clinician can.