{ "name": "gallbladdersurgerycost.co.uk NHS Cholecystectomy Waiting Times", "title": "NHS Cholecystectomy Waiting Times", "url": "https://gallbladdersurgerycost.co.uk/datasets/nhs-cholecystectomy-waiting-times/", "csv": "https://gallbladdersurgerycost.co.uk/datasets/nhs-cholecystectomy-waiting-times.csv", "markdown": "https://gallbladdersurgerycost.co.uk/datasets/nhs-cholecystectomy-waiting-times/index.md", "computed_at": "2026-09-26", "license": "https://gallbladdersurgerycost.co.uk/terms", "headline": "The median published figure in the NHS Cholecystectomy Waiting Times is 18.75 percent across 2 sources' own pages (range 2 to 35.50 percent), read 26 September 2026.", "quotes": [ "The median published figure in the NHS Cholecystectomy Waiting Times is 18.75 percent across 2 sources' own pages (range 2 to 35.50 percent), read 26 September 2026.", "2 of the 12 named sources read in full publish a figure; 10 publish none, read 26 September 2026.", "NHS Cholecystectomy Waiting Times, nation Northern Ireland: median 35.50 percent across 1 source, read 26 September 2026.", "NHS Cholecystectomy Waiting Times, nation England: median 2 percent across 1 source, read 26 September 2026.", "The median is unchanged since 25 September 2026 (was 18.75 percent across 2)." ], "citation": "\"gallbladdersurgerycost.co.uk NHS Cholecystectomy Waiting Times\", updated 2026-09-26, https://gallbladdersurgerycost.co.uk/datasets/nhs-cholecystectomy-waiting-times/.", "changed_since": { "since": "2026-09-25", "previous_median": 18.75, "delta": 0, "direction": "unchanged", "sentence": "The median is unchanged since 25 September 2026 (was 18.75 percent across 2)." }, "national": { "unit": "%", "n": 2, "median": 18.75, "min": 2, "max": 35.5, "p25": -6.375, "p75": 43.875, "mean": 18.75, "units": { "%": 2 }, "published_sources": 2, "named_sources": 13, "read_sources": 12, "not_published": 10, "published_share": 0.167 }, "by_axis": { "nation": { "Northern Ireland": { "%": { "n": 1, "median": 35.5, "min": 35.5, "max": 35.5, "p25": 35.5, "p75": 35.5, "mean": 35.5 } }, "England": { "%": { "n": 1, "median": 2, "min": 2, "max": 2, "p25": 2, "p75": 2, "mean": 2 } } } }, "rows": [ { "source": "Department of Health (NI) - quarterly waiting times statistics, 31 March 2026", "url": "https://www.health-ni.gov.uk/news/publication-quarterly-northern-ireland-outpatient-inpatient-and-day-case-and-diagnostic-waiting-times-statistics-position-31-march-2026", "figure": "35.5%", "value": 35.5, "unit": "%", "vat": null, "axis": { "nation": "Northern Ireland" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-09-11", "quote": "35.5% (29,314 of 82,568) of patients were waiting more than 52 weeks for admission, compared with 38.9% on 31 December 2025.", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "183f9d7401dcc615dffbfc996e742897562804710417abe51ed91d7a4ceb0299" }, { "source": "The King's Fund - waiting times for non-urgent treatment", "url": "https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-analysis/data-and-charts/waiting-times-non-urgent-treatment", "figure": "2%", "value": 2, "unit": "%", "vat": null, "axis": { "nation": "England" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "quote": "However, in October 2025 around 171,000 people (2%) had been waiting longer than one year for treatment.", "source_class": "secondary", "text_sha256": "c1dbb43074c5cd2c17e9f582624f7fffd697f72854f48aa95226d514f44c1de6" } ], "not_published": [ { "source": "ONS - NHS planned care waiting times across the UK", "url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/healthcaresystem/articles/nhsplannedcarewaitingtimesacrosstheuk/2024-06-18", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "Public Health Scotland - NHS waiting times, stage of treatment", "url": "https://publichealthscotland.scot/publications/nhs-waiting-times-stage-of-treatment/", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-11", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "NISRA - hospital waiting times remain high", "url": "https://www.nisra.gov.uk/news/hospital-waiting-times-remain-high", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "Welsh Government - trends in NHS planned care activity", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/trends-nhs-planned-care-activity-march-2025-html", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "NHS - guide to NHS waiting times in England", "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/hospitals/guide-to-nhs-waiting-times-in-england/", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "My Planned Care (NHS England)", "url": "https://www.myplannedcare.nhs.uk/", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-11", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "StatsWales - patient pathways waiting to start treatment by month, grouped weeks and treatment function", "url": "https://statswales.gov.wales/Catalogue/Health-and-Social-Care/NHS-Hospital-Waiting-Times/Referral-to-Treatment/patientpathwayswaitingtostarttreatment-by-month-groupedweeks-treatmentfunction", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "NHS England - RTT waiting times statistics", "url": "https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/rtt-waiting-times/", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-11", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "Nuffield Trust - elective treatment waiting times", "url": "https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/treatment-waiting-times", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "ons.gov.uk", "url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/healthcaresystem/articles/nhsplannedcarewaitingtimesacrosstheuk/2024-06-18", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" } ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/healthcaresystem/articles/nhsplannedcarewaitingtimesacrosstheuk/2024-06-18", "label": "ONS - NHS planned care waiting times across the UK", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://publichealthscotland.scot/publications/nhs-waiting-times-stage-of-treatment/", "label": "Public Health Scotland - NHS waiting times, stage of treatment", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.health-ni.gov.uk/news/publication-quarterly-northern-ireland-outpatient-inpatient-and-day-case-and-diagnostic-waiting-times-statistics-position-31-march-2026", "label": "Department of Health (NI) - 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patient pathways waiting to start treatment by month, grouped weeks and treatment function", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/rtt-waiting-times/", "label": "NHS England - RTT waiting times statistics", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/hospital-admitted-patient-care-activity", "label": "NHS Digital - hospital admitted patient care activity", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-analysis/data-and-charts/waiting-times-non-urgent-treatment", "label": "The King's Fund - waiting times for non-urgent treatment", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/treatment-waiting-times", "label": "Nuffield Trust - elective treatment waiting times", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/healthcaresystem/articles/nhsplannedcarewaitingtimesacrosstheuk/2024-06-18", "label": "ons.gov.uk", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" } ], "methodology": "Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through the estate's fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 2 of the 12 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 10 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 1 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in % (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 76 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. Derivation as chartered: the general surgery waiting-time series for all four UK nations put on ONE comparable footing - median and 92nd/95th percentile weeks, the share past 18, 52 and 104 weeks - which no single publisher does because each nation measures differently (England RTT, Scotland stage of treatment, Wales patient pathways, Northern Ireland inpatient admission), and then set beside the private price index so the page can state the wait a given price is buying out of, per region, dated.", "embed": "

18.75 percent

median published figure, NHS Cholecystectomy Waiting Times, across 2 sources, read 26 September 2026

Source: gallbladdersurgerycost.co.uk NHS Cholecystectomy Waiting Times
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