How long is the wait for a gallbladder removal at Fordcombe Hospital?
The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, which runs Fordcombe 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 Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust the typical ultrasound wait is 2 weeks, with 1% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).
See Fordcombe Hospital's full ultrasound queue and faster scan alternatives →
Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Fordcombe Hospital
Distances are straight-line from this hospital's own location, so this list is specific to Fordcombe Hospital.
- Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust · Reigate and Banstead13w · 16 mi · 10w faster
- Medway NHS Foundation Trust · Medway23w · 23 mi
- Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust · Lewisham9w · 24 mi · 14w faster
- East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust · Hastings18w · 24 mi · 5w faster
- The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust · Kensington and Chelsea7w · 29 mi · 16w faster
- Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust · Guildford16w · 35 mi · 7w faster
Other hospitals run by Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
Same trust, so the wait above applies at these too — your care could be at any of them.
- The Tunbridge Wells Hospital5 mi
- Sevenoaks Hospital11 mi
- The Maidstone Hospital16 mi
See every NHS trust ranked by gallbladder removal wait →
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