NHS waiting times · Wakefield · General Surgery

How long is the wait for a gallbladder removal at Dewsbury & District Hospital?

The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust, which runs Dewsbury & District Hospital, and it is the wait that applies to you here.

10weeks

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

2weekstypical ultrasound wait · June 2026

An ultrasound scan is a separate NHS queue from the treatment wait above, and it comes first. At Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust the typical ultrasound wait is 2 weeks, with 0% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).

See Dewsbury & District Hospital's full ultrasound queue and faster scan alternatives →

Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Dewsbury & District Hospital

Distances are straight-line from this hospital's own location, so this list is specific to Dewsbury & District Hospital.

  • Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust · Kirklees6w · 7 mi · 4w faster
  • Airedale NHS Foundation Trust · Bradford9w · 19 mi · 1w faster
  • Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust · Tameside4w · 23 mi · 6w faster
  • Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Chesterfield4w · 34 mi · 6w faster
  • Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Preston9w · 44 mi · 1w faster
  • County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust · Darlington6w · 57 mi · 4w faster

Other hospitals run by Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust

Same trust, so the wait above applies at these too — your care could be at any of them.

  • Pinderfields General Hospital7 mi
  • Pontefract General Infirmary14 mi

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