How long is the wait for a gallbladder removal at Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital?
The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Royal Devon & Exeter 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 Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust the typical ultrasound wait is 3 weeks, with 30% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).
See Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital's full ultrasound queue and faster scan alternatives →
Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital
Distances are straight-line from this hospital's own location, so this list is specific to Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital.
- Somerset NHS Foundation Trust · Somerset4w · 26 mi · 28w faster
- University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust · Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole6w · 67 mi · 26w faster
- Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust · Bath and North East Somerset12w · 67 mi · 20w faster
- North Bristol NHS Trust · Bristol, City of26w · 67 mi · 6w faster
- Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust · Cornwall14w · 76 mi · 18w faster
- Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust · Wiltshire4w · 78 mi · 28w faster
Other hospitals run by Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Same trust, so the wait above applies at these too — your care could be at any of them.
- Heavitree Hospital1 mi
- Exmouth Hospital8 mi
- Victoria Hospital12 mi
- Tiverton and District Hospital13 mi
- Honiton Hospital15 mi
- Axminster Hospital23 mi
- North Devon District Hospital35 mi
See every NHS trust ranked by gallbladder removal wait →
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