NHS waiting times · Coventry · General Surgery

How long is the wait for a gallbladder removal at Hospital of St Cross?

The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, which runs Hospital of St Cross, and it is the wait that applies to you here.

11weeks

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 University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust the typical ultrasound wait is 2 weeks, with 0% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).

See Hospital of St Cross's full ultrasound queue and faster scan alternatives →

Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Hospital of St Cross

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

  • Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust · West Northamptonshire9w · 18 mi · 2w faster
  • Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Milton Keynes5w · 32 mi · 6w faster
  • Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Chesterfield4w · 60 mi · 7w faster
  • Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust · Reading5w · 64 mi · 6w faster
  • The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust · Harlow5w · 70 mi · 6w faster
  • East Cheshire NHS Trust · Cheshire East10w · 72 mi · 1w faster

Other hospitals run by University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

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

  • University Hospital8 mi

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