NHS waiting times · Lincoln · Trauma & Orthopaedics

How long is the wait for a carpal tunnel surgery at Welland Hospital?

The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs Welland Hospital, and it is the wait that applies to you here.

46weeks

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

7weekstypical nerve conduction test wait · June 2026

A nerve conduction test is a separate NHS queue from the treatment wait above, and it comes first. At United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust the typical nerve conduction test wait is 7 weeks, with 57% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).

See Welland Hospital's full nerve conduction test queue and faster scan alternatives →

Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Welland Hospital

Distances are straight-line from this hospital's own location, so this list is specific to Welland Hospital.

  • Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · North Northamptonshire43w · 37 mi · 3w faster
  • Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Cambridge45w · 45 mi · 1w faster
  • Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust · West Northamptonshire41w · 50 mi · 5w faster
  • Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust · North East Lincolnshire45w · 52 mi · 1w faster
  • Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Milton Keynes38w · 59 mi · 8w faster
  • George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust · Nuneaton and Bedworth29w · 60 mi · 17w faster

Other hospitals run by United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Same trust, so the wait above applies at these too — your care could be at any of them.

  • Johnson Hospital1 mi
  • Pilgrim Hospital14 mi
  • Grantham & District Hospital23 mi
  • Lincoln County Hospital34 mi
  • County Hospital Louth40 mi
  • John Coupland Hospital50 mi

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