NHS diagnostic waits · Camden · cystoscopy (bladder camera test)

How long is the wait for a cystoscopy (bladder camera test) at Royal Free Hospital?

The NHS does not publish cystoscopy waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Royal Free Hospital, and it is the current cystoscopy queue that applies to you here — the list as it stands this month, not a prediction.

2weeks

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

Half of the people waiting for a cystoscopy (bladder camera test) at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust have waited longer than 2 weeks. 24% have been waiting more than six weeks, against an NHS standard that fewer than 1% should.

Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Royal Free Hospital

A shorter cystoscopy queue, straight-line from this hospital's own location — so this list is specific to Royal Free Hospital.

  • Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Runnymede1w · 20 mi · 1w faster
  • Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust · Buckinghamshire1w · 21 mi · 1w faster
  • Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust · Reading1w · 35 mi · 1w faster

Other hospitals run by Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

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

  • North Middlesex Hospital6 mi
  • Barnet Hospital7 mi
  • Hadley Wood Hospital7 mi
  • Chase Farm Hospital8 mi
  • St Michael's Hospital8 mi
  • Mount Vernon Hospital13 mi

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