NHS waiting times · Walsall · General Surgery

How long is the wait for a gallbladder removal at Walsall Manor Hospital?

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

25weeks

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 Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust the typical ultrasound wait is 2 weeks, with 15% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).

See Walsall Manor Hospital's full ultrasound queue and faster scan alternatives →

Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Walsall Manor Hospital

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

  • Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust · Sandwell15w · 7 mi · 10w faster
  • The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust · Dudley18w · 7 mi · 7w faster
  • University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust · Birmingham13w · 9 mi · 12w faster
  • University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust · Coventry11w · 26 mi · 14w faster
  • South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust · Warwick19w · 27 mi · 6w faster
  • University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust · Stoke-on-Trent14w · 30 mi · 11w faster

Other hospitals run by Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust

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

  • Dorothy Pattison Hospital0 mi

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