NHS waiting times · York · General Surgery

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

York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust publishes a general surgery waiting time, but from too few completed pathways for us to treat it as reliable.

Before treatment: the scan wait too

4weekstypical ultrasound wait · June 2026

An ultrasound scan is a separate NHS queue from the treatment wait above, and it comes first. At York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust the typical ultrasound wait is 4 weeks, with 30% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).

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

Nearby hospitals that publish a wait

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

  • Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust · North Yorkshire13w · 18 mi
  • Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust · Leeds15w · 21 mi
  • Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust · Wakefield10w · 25 mi
  • Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Doncaster28w · 30 mi
  • Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Bradford12w · 31 mi
  • Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust · Kingston upon Hull, City of13w · 33 mi

Other hospitals run by York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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

  • Scarborough General Hospital34 mi
  • Cross Lane Hospital35 mi
  • St Mary's Hospital35 mi
  • Bridlington and District Hospital36 mi

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