NHS waiting times · Wandsworth · General Surgery

How long is the wait for a gallbladder removal at St George's Hospital?

The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs St George's Hospital, and it is the wait that applies to you here.

46weeks

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

3weekstypical ultrasound wait · June 2026

An ultrasound scan is a separate NHS queue from the treatment wait above, and it comes first. At St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust the typical ultrasound wait is 3 weeks, with 24% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).

See St George's Hospital's full ultrasound queue and faster scan alternatives →

Faster hospitals within 100 miles of St George's Hospital

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

  • Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust · Sutton26w · 3 mi · 20w faster
  • The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust · Kensington and Chelsea7w · 4 mi · 39w faster
  • Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Kensington and Chelsea43w · 4 mi · 3w faster
  • Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust · Kingston upon Thames37w · 5 mi · 9w faster
  • Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust · Westminster43w · 6 mi · 3w faster
  • Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust · Lewisham9w · 7 mi · 37w faster

See every NHS trust ranked by gallbladder removal wait →

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