How long is the wait for a gallbladder removal at Kettering General Hospital?
The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Kettering General 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 Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust the typical ultrasound wait is 5 weeks, with 40% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).
See Kettering General Hospital's full ultrasound queue and faster scan alternatives →
Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Kettering General Hospital
Distances are straight-line from this hospital's own location, so this list is specific to Kettering General Hospital.
- Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust · West Northamptonshire9w · 13 mi · 23w faster
- North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust · Peterborough26w · 23 mi · 6w faster
- Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Milton Keynes5w · 26 mi · 27w faster
- University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust · Coventry11w · 29 mi · 21w faster
- George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust · Nuneaton and Bedworth27w · 32 mi · 5w faster
- South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust · Warwick19w · 36 mi · 13w faster
Other hospitals run by Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Same trust, so the wait above applies at these too — your care could be at any of them.
- Woodland Hospital1 mi
See every NHS trust ranked by gallbladder removal wait →
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