NHS waiting times · Lincoln · General Surgery

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

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

21weeks

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

9weekstypical ultrasound wait · June 2026

An ultrasound scan is a separate NHS queue from the treatment wait above, and it comes first. At United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust the typical ultrasound wait is 9 weeks, with 66% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).

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

Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Grantham & District Hospital

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

  • University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust · Derby17w · 36 mi · 4w faster
  • Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Chesterfield4w · 38 mi · 17w faster
  • The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust · Rotherham18w · 45 mi · 3w faster
  • Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust · West Northamptonshire9w · 48 mi · 12w faster
  • University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust · Coventry11w · 48 mi · 10w faster
  • Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust · North East Lincolnshire18w · 49 mi · 3w faster

Other hospitals run by United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

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

  • Lincoln County Hospital22 mi
  • Johnson Hospital22 mi
  • Welland Hospital23 mi
  • Pilgrim Hospital27 mi
  • John Coupland Hospital34 mi
  • County Hospital Louth41 mi

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