How long is the wait for a gallbladder removal at The Maidstone Hospital?
The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, which runs The Maidstone 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 Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust the typical ultrasound wait is 2 weeks, with 1% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).
See The Maidstone Hospital's full ultrasound queue and faster scan alternatives →
Faster hospitals within 100 miles of The Maidstone Hospital
Distances are straight-line from this hospital's own location, so this list is specific to The Maidstone Hospital.
- Medway NHS Foundation Trust · Medway23w · 8 mi
- Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust · Southend-on-Sea7w · 21 mi · 16w faster
- Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust · Lewisham9w · 25 mi · 14w faster
- East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust · Canterbury10w · 26 mi · 13w faster
- East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust · Hastings18w · 27 mi · 5w faster
- Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust · Reigate and Banstead13w · 28 mi · 10w faster
Other hospitals run by Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
Same trust, so the wait above applies at these too — your care could be at any of them.
- The Tunbridge Wells Hospital12 mi
- Sevenoaks Hospital13 mi
- Fordcombe Hospital16 mi
See every NHS trust ranked by gallbladder removal wait →
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