How long is the wait for a carpal tunnel surgery at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital?
The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust, which runs The Queen Elizabeth 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 The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust the typical nerve conduction test wait is 3 weeks, with 0% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).
See The Queen Elizabeth Hospital's full nerve conduction test queue and faster scan alternatives →
Faster hospitals within 100 miles of The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Distances are straight-line from this hospital's own location, so this list is specific to The Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
- North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust · Peterborough50w · 33 mi · 7w faster
- West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust · West Suffolk47w · 38 mi · 10w faster
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Cambridge45w · 42 mi · 12w faster
- United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust · Lincoln46w · 52 mi · 11w faster
- James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Great Yarmouth38w · 55 mi · 19w faster
- Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · North Northamptonshire43w · 56 mi · 14w faster
See every NHS trust ranked by carpal tunnel surgery wait →
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