The Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Ratings

• Overall

  Requires improvement

• Safe

  Requires improvement

• Effective

  Requires improvement

• Caring

  Good

• Responsive

  Requires improvement

• Well-led

  Requires improvement

Our view of the service

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital is a district general hospital located in Kings Lynn. The hospital provides medical services across West and North Norfolk, North Cambridgeshire and South Lincolnshire. The hospital has approximately 500 inpatient beds across 22 core wards and employs over 4000 staff.

We assessed Queen Elizabeth Hospital on 28 and 29 April 2026. We assessed 2 assessment service groups at this location, urgent and emergency care and medical care (including older people).

We carried out comprehensive assessments for both assessment service groups inspecting all 34 quality statements across the key questions of safe, effective, caring responsive and well led.

This was an unannounced assessment due to concerns around emerging risk and the time passed since the last assessment.

At this assessment we found breaches relating to safe care and treatment and dignity and respect.