NHS waiting times · Basingstoke and Deane · General Surgery

How long is the wait for a gallbladder removal at Winchester County Hospital?

The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Winchester County Hospital, and it is the wait that applies to you here.

51weeks

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

3weekstypical ultrasound wait · June 2026

An ultrasound scan is a separate NHS queue from the treatment wait above, and it comes first. At Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust the typical ultrasound wait is 3 weeks, with 12% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).

See Winchester County Hospital's full ultrasound queue and faster scan alternatives →

Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Winchester County Hospital

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

  • Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust · Wiltshire4w · 17 mi · 47w faster
  • University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust · Southampton20w · 20 mi · 31w faster
  • Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Swindon17w · 24 mi · 34w faster
  • Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust · Reading5w · 28 mi · 46w faster
  • Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust · Portsmouth8w · 31 mi · 43w faster
  • Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust · Surrey Heath39w · 33 mi · 12w faster

Other hospitals run by Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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

  • Basingstoke General Hospital0 mi
  • Royal Hampshire County Hospital13 mi
  • Sarum Road Hospital13 mi
  • Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital17 mi

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