How long is the wait for a hearing test (audiology) at Kent & Canterbury Hospital?
The NHS does not publish hearing test waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Kent & Canterbury Hospital, and it is the current hearing test queue that applies to you here — the list as it stands this month, not a prediction.
Updated June 2026 · (the NHS diagnostics waiting-list return)
Half of the people waiting for a hearing test (audiology) at Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust have waited longer than 4 weeks. 24% have been waiting more than six weeks, against an NHS standard that fewer than 1% should.
Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Kent & Canterbury Hospital
A shorter hearing test queue, straight-line from this hospital's own location — so this list is specific to Kent & Canterbury Hospital.
- East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust · Canterbury2w · 0 mi · 2w faster
- Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust · Southend-on-Sea2w · 26 mi · 2w faster
- Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust · Maidstone3w · 26 mi · 1w faster
- East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust · Hastings2w · 35 mi · 2w faster
- Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust · Havering3w · 44 mi · 1w faster
- East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust · Colchester2w · 45 mi · 2w faster
Other hospitals run by Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
Same trust, so the queue above applies at these too — your hearing test could be at any of them.
- St Martins Hospital1 mi
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