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The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of June 2026, 25,086 people were on the The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust all-services waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (63%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · East of England · ODS code RCX

People waiting (all services)
25,086
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
62.8%
England: 65.8%
Over 52 weeks
373
Services reported
16
with people currently waiting

373 people (1.5%, roughly 1 in 67) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

Figures are for the whole organisation (trust level), not for an individual hospital site or clinic. The all-services total is the published organisation total, not a sum of the service rows.

Waiting times by service

Each row is one consultant-led service at this organisation, compared with the England figure for the same service in the same month.

Services at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)3,08551%59.0%68+7.6 pp
Dermatology2,46868%69.0%5+16.7 pp
Orthopaedics2,19551%60.6%88-4.9 pp
Ophthalmology2,04266%73.8%28-5.2 pp
General surgery1,63050%63.0%58+2.6 pp
Gynaecology1,50472%61.0%27+25.1 pp
Urology1,44967%65.0%40+12.4 pp
Cardiology1,42769%68.2%2-4.3 pp
Gastroenterology1,31465%69.3%0+22.3 pp
Neurology1,16662%61.7%0+23.4 pp
Respiratory medicine90856%74.8%0-28.5 pp
Rheumatology59479%70.8%1+32.7 pp
Oral surgery42878%55.0%13+10.3 pp
General medicine17395%71.4%0+3.6 pp
Elderly medicine6694%83.1%0+5.4 pp
Plastic surgery6562%59.3%1-3 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people waiting at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust waiting under 18 weeks improved by 6.6 percentage points (56% to 63%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 4.3 points over 3 months (58.5% in March 2026); up 8.7 points over 6 months (54.1% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +6.6 points

Percentage of people seen within 18 weeks, over the last 12 published months.

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Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202556.2%
August 202558.1%
September 202555.1%
October 202555.3%
November 202555.6%
December 202554.1%
January 202653.9%
February 202654.1%
March 202658.5%
April 202659%
May 202661.5%
June 202662.8%

Month-to-month movements of less than two percentage points are treated as normal variation rather than a real change in direction.

Month-by-month figures
Monthly all-services figures for The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202528,04156.2%545
August 202528,49358.1%560
September 202528,05255.1%559
October 202527,12355.3%421
November 202526,30755.6%363
December 202526,28154.1%362
January 202626,14453.9%400
February 202625,34554.1%346
March 202625,02958.5%326
April 202625,15359.0%349
May 202625,60061.5%432
June 202625,08662.8%373

Diagnostic tests

Tests are measured against a separate six-week standard. Figures for June 2026.

Waiting times across this area

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Contact details we hold for this organisation

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What these figures cannot tell you

  • Where you are in a queue, or when you will be seen or treated.
  • How urgent your own referral is. These are aggregate waiting-list figures and do not show the clinical priority of an individual patient.
  • Anything about a specific consultant, clinic or site within a trust.
  • What will happen next month: these are end-of-month snapshots of a past period.

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