How long is the wait for a gallbladder removal at Solihull Hospital?
The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Solihull 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 University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust the typical ultrasound wait is 5 weeks, with 43% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).
See Solihull Hospital's full ultrasound queue and faster scan alternatives →
Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Solihull Hospital
Distances are straight-line from this hospital's own location, so this list is specific to Solihull Hospital.
- University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust · Coventry11w · 14 mi · 2w faster
- Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust · West Northamptonshire9w · 40 mi · 4w faster
- Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Milton Keynes5w · 52 mi · 8w faster
- Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Chesterfield4w · 59 mi · 9w faster
- East Cheshire NHS Trust · Cheshire East10w · 60 mi · 3w faster
- Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust · Tameside4w · 75 mi · 9w faster
Other hospitals run by University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Same trust, so the wait above applies at these too — your care could be at any of them.
- Heartlands Hospital5 mi
- Queen Elizabeth Hospital7 mi
- The Harborne Hospital7 mi
- Good Hope Hospital11 mi
See every NHS trust ranked by gallbladder removal wait →
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