NHS diagnostic waits · Somerset · echocardiogram (heart scan)

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

The NHS does not publish echocardiogram waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Bridgwater Hospital, and it is the current echocardiogram 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 an echocardiogram (heart scan) at Somerset NHS Foundation Trust have waited longer than 2 weeks. 9% have been waiting more than six weeks, against an NHS standard that fewer than 1% should.

Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Bridgwater Hospital

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

  • South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust · Warwick1w · 99 mi · 1w faster

Other hospitals run by Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

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

  • Burnham on Sea Hospital7 mi
  • Trinity Hospital10 mi
  • Musgrove Park Hospital11 mi
  • Yeovil District Hospital20 mi
  • Yeatman Hospital24 mi

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