NHS diagnostic waits · Exeter · echocardiogram (heart scan)

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

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

5weeks

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

Half of the people waiting for an echocardiogram (heart scan) at Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust have waited longer than 5 weeks. 43% have been waiting more than six weeks, against an NHS standard that fewer than 1% should.

Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Exmouth Hospital

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

  • Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust · Torbay2w · 12 mi · 3w faster
  • Somerset NHS Foundation Trust · Somerset2w · 30 mi · 3w faster
  • University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust · Plymouth3w · 34 mi · 2w faster
  • University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust · Bristol, City of2w · 68 mi · 3w faster
  • Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust · Bath and North East Somerset4w · 69 mi · 1w faster
  • North Bristol NHS Trust · Bristol, City of2w · 70 mi · 3w faster

Other hospitals run by Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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

  • Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital8 mi
  • Victoria Hospital8 mi
  • Heavitree Hospital9 mi
  • Honiton Hospital15 mi
  • Tiverton and District Hospital20 mi
  • Axminster Hospital21 mi
  • North Devon District Hospital43 mi

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