How long is the wait for a gallbladder removal at St Albans City Hospital?
The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs St Albans City 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 West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust the typical ultrasound wait is 4 weeks, with 33% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).
See St Albans City Hospital's full ultrasound queue and faster scan alternatives →
Faster hospitals within 100 miles of St Albans City Hospital
Distances are straight-line from this hospital's own location, so this list is specific to St Albans City Hospital.
- Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Luton15w · 11 mi · 6w faster
- The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust · Harlow5w · 18 mi · 16w faster
- The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust · Kensington and Chelsea7w · 20 mi · 14w faster
- Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Milton Keynes5w · 25 mi · 16w faster
- Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust · Lewisham9w · 25 mi · 12w faster
- Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust · Reading5w · 34 mi · 16w faster
Other hospitals run by West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Same trust, so the wait above applies at these too — your care could be at any of them.
- Watford General Hospital8 mi
See every NHS trust ranked by gallbladder removal wait →
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