How long is the wait for a gallbladder removal at Glenfield Hospital?
The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, which runs Glenfield 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 University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust the typical ultrasound wait is 1 weeks, with 3% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).
See Glenfield Hospital's full ultrasound queue and faster scan alternatives →
Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Glenfield Hospital
Distances are straight-line from this hospital's own location, so this list is specific to Glenfield Hospital.
- George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust · Nuneaton and Bedworth27w · 16 mi · 9w faster
- University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust · Coventry11w · 19 mi · 25w faster
- University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust · Derby17w · 23 mi · 19w faster
- Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · North Northamptonshire32w · 25 mi · 4w faster
- South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust · Warwick19w · 30 mi · 17w faster
- Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust · West Northamptonshire9w · 31 mi · 27w faster
Other hospitals run by University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
Same trust, so the wait above applies at these too — your care could be at any of them.
- Leicester Royal Infirmary3 mi
- Leicester General Hospital4 mi
- St Lukes Hospital16 mi
See every NHS trust ranked by gallbladder removal wait →
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