NHS waiting times · Portsmouth · General Surgery

How long is the wait for a gallbladder removal at Queen Alexandra Hospital?

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

8weeks

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

2weekstypical ultrasound wait · June 2026

An ultrasound scan is a separate NHS queue from the treatment wait above, and it comes first. At Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust the typical ultrasound wait is 2 weeks, with 4% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).

See Queen Alexandra Hospital's full ultrasound queue and faster scan alternatives →

Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Queen Alexandra Hospital

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

  • Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust · Wiltshire4w · 34 mi · 4w faster
  • University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust · Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole6w · 40 mi · 2w faster
  • Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust · Reading5w · 42 mi · 3w faster
  • The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust · Kensington and Chelsea7w · 59 mi · 1w faster
  • The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust · Harlow5w · 81 mi · 3w faster
  • Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Milton Keynes5w · 83 mi · 3w faster

Other hospitals run by Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

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

  • St Mary's Hospital3 mi

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