How long is the wait for a gallbladder removal at Ramsey Buckshawe Hospital?
The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Ramsey Buckshawe 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 Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust the typical ultrasound wait is 4 weeks, with 33% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).
See Ramsey Buckshawe Hospital's full ultrasound queue and faster scan alternatives →
Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Ramsey Buckshawe Hospital
Distances are straight-line from this hospital's own location, so this list is specific to Ramsey Buckshawe Hospital.
- Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust · Tameside4w · 28 mi · 5w faster
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust · Bradford9w · 32 mi
- Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust · Kirklees6w · 35 mi · 3w faster
- Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Chesterfield4w · 61 mi · 5w faster
- County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust · Darlington6w · 74 mi · 3w faster
- South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Middlesbrough8w · 84 mi · 1w faster
Other hospitals run by Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Same trust, so the wait above applies at these too — your care could be at any of them.
- Chorley & South Ribble Hospital2 mi
- Royal Preston Hospital7 mi
See every NHS trust ranked by gallbladder removal wait →
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