How long is the wait for a gallbladder removal at Chorley & South Ribble Hospital?
The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Chorley & South Ribble 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 half of patients wait for the whole General Surgery specialty at this trust, from GP referral to the start of treatment — the NHS does not publish a wait for gallbladder removal on its own.
Before treatment: the scan wait too
An ultrasound scan is a separate NHS queue from the treatment wait above, and it comes first. At Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust the typical ultrasound wait is 4 weeks, with 33% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).
See Chorley & South Ribble Hospital's full ultrasound queue and faster scan alternatives →
Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Chorley & South Ribble Hospital
Distances are straight-line from this hospital's own location, so this list is specific to Chorley & South Ribble Hospital.
- Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust · Tameside4w · 26 mi · 5w faster
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust · Bradford9w · 32 mi
- Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust · Kirklees6w · 34 mi · 3w faster
- Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Chesterfield4w · 59 mi · 5w faster
- County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust · Darlington6w · 74 mi · 3w faster
- South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Middlesbrough8w · 84 mi · 1w faster
Other hospitals run by Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Same trust, so the wait above applies at these too — your care could be at any of them.
- Ramsey Buckshawe Hospital2 mi
- Royal Preston Hospital9 mi
See every NHS trust ranked by gallbladder removal wait →
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