NHS waiting times · Blackpool · General Surgery

How long is the wait for a gallbladder removal at Fleetwood Hospital?

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust publishes a general surgery waiting time, but from too few completed pathways for us to treat it as reliable.

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 Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust the typical ultrasound wait is 2 weeks, with 9% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).

See Fleetwood Hospital's full ultrasound queue and faster scan alternatives →

Nearby hospitals that publish a wait

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

  • Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Preston9w · 15 mi
  • East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust · Blackburn with Darwen27w · 26 mi
  • University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust · Westmorland and Furness37w · 29 mi
  • Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Wigan43w · 30 mi
  • Bolton NHS Foundation Trust · Bolton12w · 35 mi
  • Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust · Knowsley20w · 36 mi

Other hospitals run by Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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

  • Blackpool Victoria Hospital7 mi

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