How long is the wait for a gallbladder removal at St Helens Hospital?
The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs St Helens 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 Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust the typical ultrasound wait is 3 weeks, with 22% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).
See St Helens Hospital's full ultrasound queue and faster scan alternatives →
Faster hospitals within 100 miles of St Helens Hospital
Distances are straight-line from this hospital's own location, so this list is specific to St Helens Hospital.
- North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust · Warrington15w · 5 mi · 5w faster
- Bolton NHS Foundation Trust · Bolton12w · 14 mi · 8w faster
- Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust · Manchester18w · 20 mi · 2w faster
- Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Preston9w · 24 mi · 11w faster
- Stockport NHS Foundation Trust · Stockport15w · 24 mi · 5w faster
- Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust · Tameside4w · 27 mi · 16w faster
Other hospitals run by Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Same trust, so the wait above applies at these too — your care could be at any of them.
- Whiston Hospital3 mi
- Ormskirk and District General Hospital11 mi
- Southport and Formby District General Hospital17 mi
See every NHS trust ranked by gallbladder removal wait →
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