NHS waiting times · Tower Hamlets · General Surgery

How long is the wait for a gallbladder removal at The Royal London Hospital?

The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Barts Health NHS Trust, which runs The Royal London Hospital, and it is the wait that applies to you here.

36weeks

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

2weekstypical ultrasound wait · June 2026

An ultrasound scan is a separate NHS queue from the treatment wait above, and it comes first. At Barts Health NHS Trust the typical ultrasound wait is 2 weeks, with 12% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).

See The Royal London Hospital's full ultrasound queue and faster scan alternatives →

Faster hospitals within 100 miles of The Royal London Hospital

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

  • Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust · Hackney30w · 2 mi · 6w faster
  • The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust · Kensington and Chelsea7w · 5 mi · 29w faster
  • Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust · Lewisham9w · 5 mi · 27w faster
  • Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust · Sutton26w · 11 mi · 10w faster
  • Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust · Havering27w · 11 mi · 9w faster
  • Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust · Dartford24w · 15 mi · 12w faster

Other hospitals run by Barts Health NHS Trust

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

  • Mile End Hospital1 mi
  • St Bartholomew's Hospital2 mi
  • Newham General Hospital4 mi
  • Whipps Cross University Hospital5 mi
  • Wanstead Hospital6 mi

See every NHS trust ranked by gallbladder removal wait →

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