NHS diagnostic waits · Buckinghamshire · echocardiogram (heart scan)

How long is the wait for an echocardiogram (heart scan) at Amersham Hospital?

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

4weeks

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

Half of the people waiting for an echocardiogram (heart scan) at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust have waited longer than 4 weeks. 8% have been waiting more than six weeks, against an NHS standard that fewer than 1% should.

Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Amersham Hospital

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

  • West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust · Watford3w · 9 mi · 1w faster
  • The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Hillingdon2w · 12 mi · 2w faster
  • Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Runnymede2w · 20 mi · 2w faster
  • Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust · Camden3w · 21 mi · 1w faster
  • Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust · Reading3w · 21 mi · 1w faster
  • Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust · Kingston upon Thames2w · 22 mi · 2w faster

Other hospitals run by Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

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

  • Wycombe Hospital6 mi
  • Stoke Mandeville Hospital12 mi

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