How long is the wait for a gallbladder removal at Walton Hospital?
The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Walton 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 Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust the typical ultrasound wait is 2 weeks, with 1% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).
See Walton Hospital's full ultrasound queue and faster scan alternatives →
Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Walton Hospital
Distances are straight-line from this hospital's own location, so this list is specific to Walton Hospital.
- Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust · Knowsley20w · 8 mi · 14w faster
- North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust · Warrington15w · 15 mi · 19w faster
- Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Cheshire West and Chester29w · 17 mi · 5w faster
- Bolton NHS Foundation Trust · Bolton12w · 23 mi · 22w faster
- Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Preston9w · 26 mi · 25w faster
- Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust · Salford22w · 26 mi · 12w faster
Other hospitals run by Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Same trust, so the wait above applies at these too — your care could be at any of them.
- University Hospital Aintree2 mi
- Royal Liverpool University Hospital3 mi
- Broadgreen Hospital4 mi
See every NHS trust ranked by gallbladder removal wait →
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