NHS waiting times · Plymouth · General Surgery

How long is the wait for a gallbladder removal at South Hams Hospital?

University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust publishes a general surgery waiting time, but from too few completed pathways for us to treat it as reliable.

Before treatment: the scan wait too

2weekstypical ultrasound wait · June 2026

An ultrasound scan is a separate NHS queue from the treatment wait above, and it comes first. At University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust the typical ultrasound wait is 2 weeks, with 11% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).

See South Hams Hospital's full ultrasound queue and faster scan alternatives →

Nearby hospitals that publish a wait

Distances are straight-line from this hospital's own location, so this list is specific to South Hams Hospital.

  • Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust · Exeter32w · 32 mi
  • Somerset NHS Foundation Trust · Somerset4w · 58 mi
  • Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust · Cornwall14w · 58 mi
  • Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Dorset39w · 65 mi
  • University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust · Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole6w · 85 mi
  • Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust · Bath and North East Somerset12w · 97 mi

Other hospitals run by University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust

Same trust, so the wait above applies at these too — your care could be at any of them.

  • Derriford Hospital17 mi
  • Tavistock Hospital24 mi

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