NHS diagnostic waits · Lincoln · bone density scan (DEXA)

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

The NHS does not publish bone density scan waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs Grantham & District 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.

3weeks

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

Half of the people waiting for a bone density scan (DEXA) at United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust have waited longer than 3 weeks. 4% have been waiting more than six weeks, against an NHS standard that fewer than 1% should.

Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Grantham & District Hospital

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

  • University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust · Leicester2w · 29 mi · 1w faster
  • University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust · Derby2w · 36 mi · 1w faster
  • The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust · Rotherham2w · 45 mi · 1w faster
  • George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust · Nuneaton and Bedworth2w · 45 mi · 1w faster
  • Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust · Sheffield2w · 47 mi · 1w faster
  • The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust · King's Lynn and West Norfolk2w · 47 mi · 1w faster

Other hospitals run by United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

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

  • Lincoln County Hospital22 mi
  • Johnson Hospital22 mi
  • Welland Hospital23 mi
  • Pilgrim Hospital27 mi
  • John Coupland Hospital34 mi
  • County Hospital Louth41 mi

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