NHS waiting times · Milton Keynes · General Surgery

How long is the wait for a gallbladder removal at Milton Keynes Hospital?

The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Milton Keynes Hospital, and it is the wait that applies to you here.

5weeks

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

1weekstypical ultrasound wait · June 2026

An ultrasound scan is a separate NHS queue from the treatment wait above, and it comes first. At Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust the typical ultrasound wait is 1 weeks, with 6% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).

See Milton Keynes Hospital's full ultrasound queue and faster scan alternatives →

Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Milton Keynes Hospital

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

  • Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust · Wiltshire4w · 82 mi · 1w faster
  • Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Chesterfield4w · 88 mi · 1w faster

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