NHS waiting times · Lincoln · General Surgery

How long is the wait for a gallbladder removal at Lincoln County Hospital?

The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs Lincoln County 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 Lincoln County Hospital's full ultrasound queue and faster scan alternatives →

Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Lincoln County Hospital

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

  • Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust · North East Lincolnshire18w · 28 mi · 3w faster
  • Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Chesterfield4w · 36 mi · 17w faster
  • Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust · Kingston upon Hull, City of13w · 36 mi · 8w faster
  • The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust · Rotherham18w · 36 mi · 3w faster
  • Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Barnsley14w · 46 mi · 7w faster
  • University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust · Derby17w · 47 mi · 4w 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.

  • John Coupland Hospital16 mi
  • Grantham & District Hospital22 mi
  • County Hospital Louth23 mi
  • Pilgrim Hospital27 mi
  • Welland Hospital34 mi
  • Johnson Hospital34 mi

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