How long is the wait for a carpal tunnel surgery at Southport and Formby District General Hospital?
The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs Southport and Formby District General Hospital, and it is the wait that applies to you here.
Updated June 2026 · (Referral to Treatment — the NHS wait-time framework)
This is how long 8 in 10 patients wait for the whole Trauma & Orthopaedics specialty at this trust, from GP referral to the start of treatment — the NHS does not publish a wait for carpal tunnel surgery on its own.
Before treatment: the scan wait too
A nerve conduction test is a separate NHS queue from the treatment wait above, and it comes first. At Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust the typical nerve conduction test wait is 3 weeks, with 8% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).
Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Southport and Formby District General Hospital
Distances are straight-line from this hospital's own location, so this list is specific to Southport and Formby District General Hospital.
- Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust · Tameside33w · 39 mi · 4w faster
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust · Bradford35w · 45 mi · 2w faster
- Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust · Kirklees34w · 48 mi · 3w faster
- University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust · Stoke-on-Trent35w · 54 mi · 2w faster
- The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Birmingham34w · 94 mi · 3w faster
- South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Middlesbrough32w · 96 mi · 5w faster
Other hospitals run by Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Same trust, so the wait above applies at these too — your care could be at any of them.
- Ormskirk and District General Hospital6 mi
- Whiston Hospital17 mi
- St Helens Hospital17 mi
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