NHS diagnostic waits · Southend-on-Sea · bone density scan (DEXA)

How long is the wait for a bone density scan (DEXA) at Basildon Hospital?

The NHS does not publish bone density scan waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Basildon Hospital, and it is the current bone density scan queue that applies to you here — the list as it stands this month, not a prediction.

7weeks

Updated June 2026 · (the NHS diagnostics waiting-list return)

Half of the people waiting for a bone density scan (DEXA) at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust have waited longer than 7 weeks. 57% have been waiting more than six weeks, against an NHS standard that fewer than 1% should.

Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Basildon Hospital

A shorter bone density scan queue, straight-line from this hospital's own location — so this list is specific to Basildon Hospital.

  • Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust · Havering4w · 12 mi · 3w faster
  • Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust · Dartford2w · 12 mi · 5w faster
  • Medway NHS Foundation Trust · Medway3w · 13 mi · 4w faster
  • Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust · Maidstone1w · 20 mi · 6w faster
  • Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust · Lewisham2w · 21 mi · 5w faster
  • Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust · Hackney3w · 21 mi · 4w faster

Other hospitals run by Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Same trust, so the queue above applies at these too — your bone density scan could be at any of them.

  • Orsett Hospital5 mi
  • Southend Hospital10 mi
  • Mid Essex Hospital15 mi
  • St Michael's Hospital23 mi

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