How long is the wait for a gallbladder removal at Luton & Dunstable Hospital?
The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Luton & Dunstable 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 Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust the typical ultrasound wait is 3 weeks, with 13% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).
See Luton & Dunstable Hospital's full ultrasound queue and faster scan alternatives →
Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Luton & Dunstable Hospital
Distances are straight-line from this hospital's own location, so this list is specific to Luton & Dunstable Hospital.
- Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Milton Keynes5w · 14 mi · 10w faster
- The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust · Harlow5w · 25 mi · 10w faster
- Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust · West Northamptonshire9w · 29 mi · 6w faster
- The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust · Kensington and Chelsea7w · 31 mi · 8w faster
- Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust · Lewisham9w · 36 mi · 6w faster
- Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust · Reading5w · 37 mi · 10w faster
Other hospitals run by Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Same trust, so the wait above applies at these too — your care could be at any of them.
- Bedford Hospital16 mi
See every NHS trust ranked by gallbladder removal wait →
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