How long is the wait for an echocardiogram (heart scan) at Chorley & South Ribble Hospital?
The NHS does not publish echocardiogram waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Chorley & South Ribble Hospital, and it is the current echocardiogram queue that applies to you here — the list as it stands this month, not a prediction.
Updated June 2026 · (the NHS diagnostics waiting-list return)
Half of the people waiting for an echocardiogram (heart scan) at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have waited longer than 3 weeks. 28% have been waiting more than six weeks, against an NHS standard that fewer than 1% should.
Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Chorley & South Ribble Hospital
A shorter echocardiogram queue, straight-line from this hospital's own location — so this list is specific to Chorley & South Ribble Hospital.
- East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust · Blackburn with Darwen2w · 9 mi · 1w faster
- Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust · Manchester2w · 22 mi · 1w faster
- The Christie NHS Foundation Trust · Manchester2w · 23 mi · 1w faster
- Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust · Wirral2w · 25 mi · 1w faster
- Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust · Tameside2w · 26 mi · 1w faster
- Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Wirral2w · 28 mi · 1w faster
Other hospitals run by Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Same trust, so the queue above applies at these too — your echocardiogram could be at any of them.
- Ramsey Buckshawe Hospital2 mi
- Royal Preston Hospital9 mi
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