Facts and figures for The QEH

Here you will find a link to QEH data published by the NHS as well as other facts and figures about the Trust.

NHS data

For all Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust data gathered by NHS England, please go to NHS England statistics.

Annual QEH figures

In the year 2022/23 April to March, we:

  • Cared for more than 80,000 people in our Emergency Department
  • Performed more than 28,000 day-case procedures
  • Welcome more than 2,000 babies
  • Treated more than 47,000 elective and non-elective inpatients
  • Held more than 21,000 new outpatient appointments and over 180,000 follow-up appointments

Other information

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn (QEH) is a busy district general hospital which serves around 331,000 people across West and North Norfolk, as well as parts of Breckland, North Cambridgeshire and South Lincolnshire.

We employ more than 4,000 staff and volunteers who are committed to collaborating with partners to deliver safe, high-quality care. We were authorised as a Foundation Trust in 2011 and have 530 beds and 33 wards.

At QEH we have the ambition of being the best rural district general hospital for patient and staff experience.

In May 2023, we took a big step towards this aim as it was announced that the QEH had been added to the Government’s New Hospital Programme, and that a new state-of-the-art hospital will be opening its doors by 2030.

You can read all about our journey so far and how plans for our new hospital are taking shape on our dedicated microsite.