How long is the wait for a gallbladder removal at One Ashford Hospital?
The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust, which runs One Ashford 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 East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust the typical ultrasound wait is 7 weeks, with 55% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).
See One Ashford Hospital's full ultrasound queue and faster scan alternatives →
Faster hospitals within 100 miles of One Ashford Hospital
Distances are straight-line from this hospital's own location, so this list is specific to One Ashford Hospital.
- Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust · Southend-on-Sea7w · 30 mi · 3w faster
- Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust · Lewisham9w · 46 mi · 1w faster
- The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust · Kensington and Chelsea7w · 53 mi · 3w faster
- The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust · Harlow5w · 56 mi · 5w faster
- Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust · Reading5w · 84 mi · 5w faster
- Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust · Portsmouth8w · 88 mi · 2w faster
Other hospitals run by East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
Same trust, so the wait above applies at these too — your care could be at any of them.
- William Harvey Hospital0 mi
- Kent & Canterbury Hospital11 mi
- Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital26 mi
See every NHS trust ranked by gallbladder removal wait →
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