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Tonsillectomy waiting times by NHS trust

Updated June 2026 · (Referral to Treatment — the NHS wait-time framework)

This is the wait for the whole Ear, Nose & Throat specialty, not for tonsillectomy on its own — the NHS does not publish a wait for a single procedure. Each figure is the median wait from GP referral to the start of treatment — half of patients are seen sooner, half wait longer, read from that trust's own most recent data.

TrustLocationTypical wait
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation TrustReading4 weeks
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation TrustLambeth8 weeks
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustMiddlesbrough8 weeks
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation TrustBarnsley9 weeks
United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustLincoln9 weeks
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation TrustTameside11 weeks
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustBradford12 weeks
Isle of Wight NHS TrustIsle of Wight12 weeks
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustLiverpool12 weeks
East Sussex Healthcare NHS TrustHastings13 weeks
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation TrustWarwick14 weeks
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustBlackpool14 weeks
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation TrustBristol, City of14 weeks
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation TrustNorth Yorkshire14 weeks
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation TrustDarlington14 weeks
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation TrustMilton Keynes14 weeks
Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustRunnymede15 weeks
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation TrustCheshire West and Chester15 weeks
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation TrustBournemouth, Christchurch and Poole15 weeks
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation TrustSouthampton16 weeks
Salisbury NHS Foundation TrustWiltshire16 weeks
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustWandsworth16 weeks
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustBasingstoke and Deane16 weeks
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation TrustLambeth16 weeks
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustSwindon17 weeks
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustNewcastle upon Tyne17 weeks
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation TrustSunderland17 weeks
Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation TrustDorset17 weeks
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS TrustReigate and Banstead17 weeks
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustCamden17 weeks
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS TrustStevenage18 weeks
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS TrustPortsmouth18 weeks
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS TrustShropshire19 weeks
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustDoncaster19 weeks
Bolton NHS Foundation TrustBolton19 weeks
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation TrustCumberland20 weeks
Stockport NHS Foundation TrustStockport20 weeks
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation TrustNorth East Lincolnshire20 weeks
Medway NHS Foundation TrustMedway20 weeks
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS TrustSandwell21 weeks
Royal Surrey NHS Foundation TrustGuildford21 weeks
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation TrustBirmingham21 weeks
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS TrustMaidstone21 weeks
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation TrustWestmorland and Furness21 weeks
Frimley Health NHS Foundation TrustSurrey Heath21 weeks
Imperial College Healthcare NHS TrustWestminster22 weeks
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS TrustStoke-on-Trent22 weeks
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustKnowsley22 weeks
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustPreston23 weeks
University Hospitals Plymouth NHS TrustPlymouth24 weeks
Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustExeter24 weeks
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustLuton25 weeks
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation TrustDerby25 weeks
North West Anglia NHS Foundation TrustPeterborough25 weeks
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS TrustBuckinghamshire25 weeks
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS TrustCornwall26 weeks
York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustYork26 weeks
Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS TrustWakefield28 weeks
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation TrustSouthend-on-Sea28 weeks
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS TrustHarlow28 weeks
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS TrustSutton28 weeks
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation TrustKirklees29 weeks
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustCheltenham30 weeks
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS TrustNottingham30 weeks
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustAshfield30 weeks
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation TrustWorthing31 weeks
Manchester University NHS Foundation TrustManchester31 weeks
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustWigan31 weeks
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation TrustWirral31 weeks
Wye Valley NHS TrustHerefordshire, County of32 weeks
Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation TrustBath and North East Somerset32 weeks
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS TrustBlackburn with Darwen33 weeks
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustOxford33 weeks
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustCambridge33 weeks
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS TrustLeicester34 weeks
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustLeeds34 weeks
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS TrustCoventry34 weeks
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS TrustHavering34 weeks
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation TrustSalford35 weeks
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustKingston upon Hull, City of35 weeks
Northampton General Hospital NHS TrustWest Northamptonshire36 weeks
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustCheshire East38 weeks
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation TrustCanterbury38 weeks
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation TrustWarrington39 weeks
London North West University Healthcare NHS TrustBrent39 weeks
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation TrustNorth Northamptonshire40 weeks
West Suffolk NHS Foundation TrustWest Suffolk42 weeks
Walsall Healthcare NHS TrustWalsall42 weeks
Barts Health NHS TrustTower Hamlets42 weeks
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation TrustDudley43 weeks
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS TrustWolverhampton45 weeks
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustSouth Norfolk45 weeks
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation TrustChesterfield46 weeks
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation TrustKing's Lynn and West Norfolk46 weeks
Royal Free London NHS Foundation TrustCamden47 weeks
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation TrustColchester47 weeks
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustHackney49 weeks
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS TrustLewisham50 weeks
The Rotherham NHS Foundation TrustRotherham51 weeks
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustWatford51 weeks
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS TrustWorcester52 weeks
Croydon Health Services NHS TrustCroydon52 weeks
Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation TrustKingston upon Thames57 weeks
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation TrustKensington and Chelsea57 weeks
Somerset NHS Foundation TrustSomerset58 weeks
East Cheshire NHS TrustCheshire East58 weeks
James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustGreat Yarmouth62 weeks

107 NHS trusts, ranked by wait, from the admitted RTT pathway for June 2026. We show only acute trusts with a confident sample size, so a small-volume or community service can't distort the ranking. 2 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.

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