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

At the end of June 2026, 2,195 people were on the Orthopaedics at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (51%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Orthopaedics across England

People waiting
2,195
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
51.1%
England: 60.6%
Over 52 weeks
88
Median wait
18 wks
Published median for this list

88 people (4.0%, roughly 1 in 25) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 9.5 percentage points behind the England figure for this service.

Why this page exists

This page combines facts that neither the organisation page nor the England specialty page shows on its own: the current published figure for this one service at this one organisation; how that figure has moved over the months we hold; the England figure for the same service in the same month; the published median wait and 52-week count for this list; the other services this organisation reports. This service accounts for 8.7% of everyone waiting at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 12.9 percentage points (64% to 51%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 4.9 points over 3 months (46.2% in March 2026); down 4.9 points over 6 months (56.0% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -12.9 points

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

View these figures as a table
Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202564%
August 202566.4%
September 202563.6%
October 202561.6%
November 202558.9%
December 202556%
January 202653.7%
February 202646.9%
March 202646.2%
April 202647.8%
May 202652.4%
June 202651.1%

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 Orthopaedics figures at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20252,28664.0%50
August 20252,38966.4%62
September 20252,49263.6%75
October 20252,52661.6%76
November 20252,45658.9%66
December 20252,39056.0%70
January 20262,22953.7%62
February 20262,09846.9%72
March 20262,06046.2%74
April 20262,19647.8%77
May 20262,29552.4%81
June 20262,19551.1%88

Other NHS trusts offering orthopaedics within 25 miles

No other NHS trust within 25 miles reported this service in the latest month.

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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