NHS waiting times · Ear, Nose & Throat
Nasal polyp removal NHS waiting times by trust
Nasal polyp removal is done by ear, nose and throat, where the typical NHS wait is about 25 weeks: half of patients wait less, half longer. It varies a lot by hospital.
This is the wait for the whole ear, nose and throat specialty, not nasal polyp removal on its own: the NHS doesn’t publish waits for single procedures.
Updated August 2026 · (Referral to Treatment: the NHS wait-time framework)
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Get your free companion dashboard→| Trust | Location | Typical wait |
|---|---|---|
| Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust | Reading | 4 weeks |
| Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Cheshire West and Chester | 7 weeks |
| United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | Lincoln | 7 weeks |
| Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust | Wiltshire | 8 weeks |
| South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Middlesbrough | 9 weeks |
| Stockport NHS Foundation Trust | Stockport | 9 weeks |
| Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Barnsley | 10 weeks |
| Isle of Wight NHS Trust | Isle of Wight | 10 weeks |
| University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust | Southampton | 10 weeks |
| Bristol NHS Foundation Trust | Bristol, City of | 10 weeks |
| Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Bradford | 11 weeks |
| Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust | Surrey Heath | 12 weeks |
| Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Liverpool | 12 weeks |
| Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Luton | 13 weeks |
| King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Lambeth | 13 weeks |
| Bolton NHS Foundation Trust | Bolton | 14 weeks |
| Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Preston | 15 weeks |
| The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Newcastle upon Tyne | 16 weeks |
| Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust | Tameside | 16 weeks |
| Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust | North East Lincolnshire | 16 weeks |
| Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust | Lambeth | 16 weeks |
| North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust | Cumberland | 16 weeks |
| Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | Knowsley | 17 weeks |
| University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Camden | 17 weeks |
| Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust | Maidstone | 18 weeks |
| South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust | Sunderland | 18 weeks |
| East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust | Hastings | 18 weeks |
| University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust | Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole | 18 weeks |
| St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Wandsworth | 19 weeks |
| Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Wirral | 20 weeks |
| Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust | Reigate and Banstead | 20 weeks |
| County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust | Darlington | 20 weeks |
| Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust | Cornwall | 21 weeks |
| University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust | Derby | 21 weeks |
| University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust | Westmorland and Furness | 22 weeks |
| Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust | Sandwell | 22 weeks |
| University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust | Stoke-on-Trent | 22 weeks |
| Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Doncaster | 22 weeks |
| North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust | Warrington | 23 weeks |
| Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Milton Keynes | 23 weeks |
| Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust | Wakefield | 23 weeks |
| The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust | Shropshire | 23 weeks |
| Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust | Sutton | 23 weeks |
| Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Ashfield | 24 weeks |
| Medway NHS Foundation Trust | Medway | 24 weeks |
| Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust | Buckinghamshire | 25 weeks |
| University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust | Birmingham | 25 weeks |
| Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust | Guildford | 25 weeks |
| Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Basingstoke and Deane | 26 weeks |
| Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Dorset | 26 weeks |
| Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Cambridge | 26 weeks |
| Somerset NHS Foundation Trust | Somerset | 27 weeks |
| Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust | Bath and North East Somerset | 27 weeks |
| Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | Kingston upon Hull, City of | 27 weeks |
| Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust | Salford | 27 weeks |
| University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust | Coventry | 27 weeks |
| Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust | Exeter | 27 weeks |
| East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust | Blackburn with Darwen | 27 weeks |
| London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust | Brent | 28 weeks |
| North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust | Peterborough | 28 weeks |
| West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust | West Suffolk | 29 weeks |
| Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust | Nottingham | 29 weeks |
| Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Cheltenham | 29 weeks |
| University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust | Worthing | 29 weeks |
| Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust | Manchester | 30 weeks |
| South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust | Warwick | 30 weeks |
| The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust | King's Lynn and West Norfolk | 31 weeks |
| University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust | Leicester | 31 weeks |
| Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust | Camden | 33 weeks |
| Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust | Kirklees | 34 weeks |
| Wye Valley NHS Trust | Herefordshire, County of | 34 weeks |
| Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Blackpool | 35 weeks |
| Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | North Northamptonshire | 35 weeks |
| Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | South Norfolk | 36 weeks |
| York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | York | 36 weeks |
| Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust | Westminster | 37 weeks |
| Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Swindon | 37 weeks |
| Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Runnymede | 37 weeks |
| The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust | Dudley | 38 weeks |
| Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust | Walsall | 38 weeks |
| Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust | Portsmouth | 39 weeks |
| Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Oxford | 39 weeks |
| Barts Health NHS Trust | Tower Hamlets | 40 weeks |
| Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust | Worcester | 40 weeks |
| The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust | Harlow | 40 weeks |
| The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust | Wolverhampton | 40 weeks |
| Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | Leeds | 41 weeks |
| Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust | Havering | 42 weeks |
| East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust | Stevenage | 42 weeks |
| James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Great Yarmouth | 42 weeks |
| Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Chesterfield | 43 weeks |
| Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust | Hackney | 46 weeks |
| Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust | Lewisham | 47 weeks |
| East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust | Canterbury | 47 weeks |
| East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust | Colchester | 47 weeks |
| Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust | Southend-on-Sea | 49 weeks |
| Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust | Kingston upon Thames | 50 weeks |
| Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Kensington and Chelsea | 52 weeks |
| Croydon Health Services NHS Trust | Croydon | 52 weeks |
| The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust | Rotherham | 52 weeks |
| Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Wigan | 58 weeks |
| West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | Watford | 59 weeks |
102 NHS trusts, ranked by wait, from the admitted RTT pathway for August 2026. We show only acute trusts with a confident sample size, so a small-volume or community service can't distort the ranking. 5 trusts were set aside for too few patients to be reliable.
Larger trusts run several hospitals, sometimes miles apart. The NHS publishes one wait for the whole trust, not a separate figure per hospital, so the location shown is the trust's main registered site: your care could be at another of its hospitals.
About nasal polyps
Nasal polyps are soft, painless, non-cancerous growths inside the nose or sinuses. They're linked to long-term inflammation of the nose and sinuses and are more common in people with asthma.
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