NHS waiting times · Camden · General Surgery

How long is the wait for a gallbladder removal at North Middlesex Hospital?

The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, which runs North Middlesex Hospital, and it is the wait that applies to you here.

51weeks

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

3weekstypical ultrasound wait · June 2026

An ultrasound scan is a separate NHS queue from the treatment wait above, and it comes first. At Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust the typical ultrasound wait is 3 weeks, with 26% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).

See North Middlesex Hospital's full ultrasound queue and faster scan alternatives →

Faster hospitals within 100 miles of North Middlesex Hospital

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

  • Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust · Hackney30w · 4 mi · 21w faster
  • Whittington Health NHS Trust · Islington47w · 4 mi · 4w faster
  • Barts Health NHS Trust · Tower Hamlets36w · 7 mi · 15w faster
  • Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust · Westminster43w · 8 mi · 8w faster
  • The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust · Kensington and Chelsea7w · 9 mi · 44w faster
  • Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Kensington and Chelsea43w · 10 mi · 8w faster

Other hospitals run by Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

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

  • St Michael's Hospital3 mi
  • Chase Farm Hospital4 mi
  • Royal Free Hospital6 mi
  • Hadley Wood Hospital6 mi
  • Barnet Hospital7 mi
  • Mount Vernon Hospital16 mi

See every NHS trust ranked by gallbladder removal wait →

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