NHS waiting times · Preston · General Surgery

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.

9weeks

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

4weekstypical ultrasound wait · June 2026

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

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