NHS diagnostic waits · Canterbury · hearing test (audiology)
Audiology and hearing test waiting time at Kent & Canterbury Hospital
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NHS DM01 data, July 2026
Audiology at Kent & Canterbury Hospital
hearing test (audiology) is carried out by the Audiology department at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust. To be seen you usually need a referral: most people are referred by their GP, and some by a hospital specialist. Once referred, the appointment comes by letter, text or the NHS App.
What an audiology (hearing test) appointment involves, on the NHS website →Your options from here
1Free on the NHS
Stay on the NHS for your scan
Wait the NHS scan queue. 3 wks typical wait here.
2Free on the NHS
Switch to a faster NHS hospital for your scan
When your GP refers you for your hearing test, Right to Choose lets you ask to go to a faster NHS hospital.
3Part paid
Private scan, keep your NHS place
Pay for the scan privately, then rejoin the NHS for treatment.
4Self funded or insured
Go fully private
The scan and any follow-up, all private.
More about East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
How deep the queue is now
Share of the current hearing test queue at this trust by whether they have passed six weeks, July 2026. The NHS standard is that fewer than 1% wait over six weeks.
NHS hospitals near Canterbury
Kent & Canterbury Hospital (current)
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Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust · Southend-on-Sea
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Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust · Maidstone
26 mi
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust · Colchester
45 mi
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust · Lewisham
49 mi
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Lambeth
53 mi
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Wandsworth
56 mi
Median hearing test wait so far in the current queue, July 2026, straight-line from this hospital. Switching does not guarantee a shorter wait.
How we know this
NHS DM01 diagnostics data, July 2026.
The whole trust (East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust), a current-queue snapshot, not a prediction.
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