{"id":3950,"date":"2022-05-03T11:47:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T10:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/guidelines\/gallstones\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T18:39:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T17:39:23","slug":"gallstones","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/guidelines\/surgery\/gallstones\/","title":{"rendered":"Gallstones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please find below the referral pathway for patients with Gallstones in NHS Lothian<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/files\/sites\/2\/General-Surgery-Suspected-Gallstones-Flowchart-FINAL-June-26.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of General Surgery Suspected Gallstones Flowchart FINAL June 26.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-0178be88-c6e8-497b-856a-51b0d8e690c4\" href=\"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/files\/sites\/2\/General-Surgery-Suspected-Gallstones-Flowchart-FINAL-June-26.pdf\">General Surgery Suspected Gallstones Flowchart FINAL June 26<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/files\/sites\/2\/General-Surgery-Suspected-Gallstones-Flowchart-FINAL-June-26.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-0178be88-c6e8-497b-856a-51b0d8e690c4\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>J.B &amp; R.M &#8211; 12-06-26<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs\" data-active-tab=\"0\"><ul class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__nav-links\"><\/ul>\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__nav-link\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__title-wrapper\"><a href=\"#\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__title\">Referral Guidelines<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__tab-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__tab-content\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who to refer<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Refer as per the flowchart above<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to refer<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Refer via SCI Gateway along the relevant appropriate pathway below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>RIE &gt;&gt; General Surgery &gt;&gt; LI Basic Sign Referral<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OR<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>SJH &gt;&gt; General Surgery &gt;&gt; LI Basic Sign Referral<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please find below the referral pathway for patients with Gallstones in NHS Lothian J.B &amp; R.M &ndash; 12-06-26<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":4456,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[662],"class_list":["post-3950","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-gallstones"],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"NHS Lothian","author_link":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/author\/nhs-lothian\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":" <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/category\/surgery\/generalsurgery\/gallstones\/\" rel=\"tag\">Gallstones<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Please find below the referral pathway for patients with Gallstones in NHS Lothian J.B &amp; R.M &ndash; 12-06-26","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3950"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28354,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3950\/revisions\/28354"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}