NHS waiting times · Ear, Nose & Throat
Snoring and sleep apnoea NHS waiting times by trust
Snoring and sleep apnoea 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 snoring and sleep apnoea on its own: the NHS doesn’t publish waits for single procedures.
Updated July 2026 · (Referral to Treatment: the NHS wait-time framework)
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See your free wait-or-pay dashboard→| Trust | Location | Typical wait |
|---|---|---|
| Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust | Reading | 4 weeks |
| United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | Lincoln | 7 weeks |
| Isle of Wight NHS Trust | Isle of Wight | 7 weeks |
| Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Cheshire West and Chester | 8 weeks |
| Bolton NHS Foundation Trust | Bolton | 9 weeks |
| Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust | Tameside | 9 weeks |
| Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | Knowsley | 9 weeks |
| South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Middlesbrough | 10 weeks |
| Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Liverpool | 10 weeks |
| Stockport NHS Foundation Trust | Stockport | 11 weeks |
| Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Barnsley | 11 weeks |
| University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust | Southampton | 11 weeks |
| King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Lambeth | 11 weeks |
| Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Milton Keynes | 11 weeks |
| Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust | Wiltshire | 12 weeks |
| Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Luton | 12 weeks |
| University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust | Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole | 13 weeks |
| Bristol NHS Foundation Trust | Bristol, City of | 13 weeks |
| University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Camden | 13 weeks |
| Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust | Surrey Heath | 15 weeks |
| Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust | North East Lincolnshire | 16 weeks |
| University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust | Stoke-on-Trent | 16 weeks |
| Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Bradford | 16 weeks |
| Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Doncaster | 17 weeks |
| North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust | Cumberland | 17 weeks |
| East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust | Hastings | 17 weeks |
| The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Newcastle upon Tyne | 17 weeks |
| St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Wandsworth | 18 weeks |
| County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust | Darlington | 18 weeks |
| Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust | Westminster | 18 weeks |
| Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust | Lambeth | 18 weeks |
| Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Basingstoke and Deane | 19 weeks |
| South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust | Warwick | 20 weeks |
| Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Ashfield | 20 weeks |
| South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust | Sunderland | 20 weeks |
| Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust | Sutton | 21 weeks |
| Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Cambridge | 22 weeks |
| Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust | Salford | 24 weeks |
| North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust | Peterborough | 24 weeks |
| Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | Kingston upon Hull, City of | 24 weeks |
| University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust | Westmorland and Furness | 25 weeks |
| Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust | Reigate and Banstead | 25 weeks |
| Medway NHS Foundation Trust | Medway | 25 weeks |
| Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust | Maidstone | 25 weeks |
| Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Dorset | 25 weeks |
| Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust | Guildford | 25 weeks |
| Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Wirral | 25 weeks |
| Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Preston | 26 weeks |
| East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust | Stevenage | 26 weeks |
| Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust | Cornwall | 26 weeks |
| Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust | Manchester | 27 weeks |
| The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust | Wolverhampton | 27 weeks |
| London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust | Brent | 27 weeks |
| Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust | West Northamptonshire | 28 weeks |
| Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust | Nottingham | 28 weeks |
| The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust | Harlow | 28 weeks |
| North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust | Warrington | 28 weeks |
| Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust | Southend-on-Sea | 28 weeks |
| Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust | Kirklees | 29 weeks |
| Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust | Bath and North East Somerset | 29 weeks |
| Wye Valley NHS Trust | Herefordshire, County of | 29 weeks |
| James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Great Yarmouth | 29 weeks |
| University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust | Birmingham | 30 weeks |
| University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust | Worthing | 31 weeks |
| Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Wigan | 31 weeks |
| York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | York | 31 weeks |
| Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust | Wakefield | 31 weeks |
| The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust | Shropshire | 32 weeks |
| Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Blackpool | 32 weeks |
| East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust | Blackburn with Darwen | 32 weeks |
| Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Cheltenham | 32 weeks |
| Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust | Hackney | 33 weeks |
| Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust | Portsmouth | 34 weeks |
| Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust | Sandwell | 34 weeks |
| University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust | Coventry | 34 weeks |
| Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | North Northamptonshire | 34 weeks |
| University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust | Derby | 34 weeks |
| Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust | Exeter | 34 weeks |
| Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust | Havering | 36 weeks |
| The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust | King's Lynn and West Norfolk | 36 weeks |
| Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Oxford | 37 weeks |
| The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust | Dudley | 37 weeks |
| Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust | Buckinghamshire | 38 weeks |
| Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Chesterfield | 38 weeks |
| Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | Leeds | 39 weeks |
| Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Runnymede | 40 weeks |
| Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Swindon | 40 weeks |
| Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust | Walsall | 41 weeks |
| Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust | Camden | 42 weeks |
| University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust | Leicester | 43 weeks |
| East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust | Colchester | 44 weeks |
| West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust | West Suffolk | 45 weeks |
| Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | South Norfolk | 45 weeks |
| Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust | Worcester | 46 weeks |
| Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust | Lewisham | 47 weeks |
| The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust | Rotherham | 49 weeks |
| Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust | Kingston upon Thames | 50 weeks |
| Croydon Health Services NHS Trust | Croydon | 50 weeks |
| East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust | Canterbury | 51 weeks |
| Barts Health NHS Trust | Tower Hamlets | 53 weeks |
| Somerset NHS Foundation Trust | Somerset | 54 weeks |
| West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | Watford | 54 weeks |
| Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Kensington and Chelsea | 57 weeks |
103 NHS trusts, ranked by wait, from the admitted RTT pathway for July 2026. We show only acute trusts with a confident sample size, so a small-volume or community service can't distort the ranking. 7 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 snoring
Snoring happens when the airway narrows during sleep and the soft tissues vibrate. It is very common, and more likely if you are overweight, drink alcohol in the evening, smoke, sleep on your back or have a blocked nose.
Read more about snoring and sleep apnoea and what treatment involves →