How long is the wait for a gallbladder removal at Royal Free Hospital?
The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Royal Free 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 Free London NHS Foundation Trust the typical ultrasound wait is 3 weeks, with 26% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).
See Royal Free Hospital's full ultrasound queue and faster scan alternatives →
Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Royal Free Hospital
Distances are straight-line from this hospital's own location, so this list is specific to Royal Free Hospital.
- Whittington Health NHS Trust · Islington47w · 1 mi · 4w faster
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust · Westminster43w · 2 mi · 8w faster
- The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust · Kensington and Chelsea7w · 4 mi · 44w faster
- Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust · Hackney30w · 5 mi · 21w faster
- Barts Health NHS Trust · Tower Hamlets36w · 5 mi · 15w faster
- Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Kensington and Chelsea43w · 5 mi · 8w faster
Other hospitals run by Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Same trust, so the wait above applies at these too — your care could be at any of them.
- North Middlesex Hospital6 mi
- Hadley Wood Hospital7 mi
- Barnet Hospital7 mi
- Chase Farm Hospital8 mi
- St Michael's Hospital8 mi
- Mount Vernon Hospital13 mi
See every NHS trust ranked by gallbladder removal wait →
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