How long is the wait for a gallbladder removal at Royal Bolton Hospital?
The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Bolton NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Royal Bolton 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 Bolton NHS Foundation Trust the typical ultrasound wait is 2 weeks, with 1% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).
See Royal Bolton Hospital's full ultrasound queue and faster scan alternatives →
Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Royal Bolton Hospital
Distances are straight-line from this hospital's own location, so this list is specific to Royal Bolton Hospital.
- Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust · Tameside4w · 15 mi · 8w faster
- Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Preston9w · 20 mi · 3w faster
- East Cheshire NHS Trust · Cheshire East10w · 23 mi · 2w faster
- Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust · Kirklees6w · 26 mi · 6w faster
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust · Bradford9w · 30 mi · 3w faster
- Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust · Wakefield10w · 40 mi · 2w faster
See every NHS trust ranked by gallbladder removal wait →
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