Queen Elizabeth Hospital Woolwich
London · SE18 4QH · data via Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Locals may know it as: QEH Woolwich, Queen Elizabeth Greenwich
Time in department now
No live feed
Estimated wait: ~4 hr 1 min
44.1% done within 4 hrs · September 2026
Primary source: Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust — published waiting times
About this department
Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) is a district general hospital in Woolwich, South East London, part of Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust. The hospital serves the Royal Borough of Greenwich and parts of Bexley with a catchment population of approximately 300,000. The Emergency Department provides 24-hour care and handles around 95,000 attendances per year. The hospital opened in 2001, replacing the former Brook Hospital, and is built using a PFI (Private Finance Initiative) model. QEH provides comprehensive acute services and has an on-site Urgent Treatment Centre to help manage non-emergency cases and reduce A&E pressure.
Getting there & getting in touch
- Town / postcode
- London, SE18 4QH
- Hours
- Open: 24 hours, 7 days a week
- Run by
- Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
- Service level
- Full A&E (Type 1 emergency department)
On-site services
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What's the current wait at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Woolwich?
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Is the A&E at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Woolwich open right now?
Yes — this A&E never closes. It runs 24 hours a day every day of the year, with no appointment needed; arrivals are triaged and treated in order of clinical urgency.
Would somewhere other than Queen Elizabeth Hospital Woolwich treat me faster?
Quite possibly, if your problem isn't life-threatening. Urgent treatment centres and minor injuries units around London handle sprains, cuts, minor burns and simple fractures with far shorter queues. The nearby-departments panel on this page shows live figures for the closest options, and 111 can book timed slots at some of them.
Where exactly is Queen Elizabeth Hospital Woolwich?
It's in London (SE18 4QH). Pop your own postcode into our distance search to see how far it is from you compared with the other departments nearby.
When does this A&E tend to be calmest?
Across the UK the pattern is consistent: the lightest traffic is between roughly 6am and 9am, and the heaviest crunch lands on Monday mornings, weekday evenings, and Friday and Saturday nights. If your condition can safely wait for a quieter window, an early start usually pays off.
Could you be seen sooner?
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