How long is the wait for an echocardiogram (heart scan) at Furness General Hospital?
The NHS does not publish echocardiogram waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Furness General 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 University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust have waited longer than 4 weeks. 29% have been waiting more than six weeks, against an NHS standard that fewer than 1% should.
Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Furness General Hospital
A shorter echocardiogram queue, straight-line from this hospital's own location — so this list is specific to Furness General Hospital.
- Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Blackpool3w · 23 mi · 1w faster
- Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Preston3w · 31 mi · 1w faster
- East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust · Blackburn with Darwen2w · 41 mi · 2w faster
- Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Liverpool3w · 51 mi · 1w faster
- Bolton NHS Foundation Trust · Bolton3w · 51 mi · 1w faster
- Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Liverpool3w · 52 mi · 1w faster
Other hospitals run by University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust
Same trust, so the queue above applies at these too — your echocardiogram could be at any of them.
- Royal Lancaster Infirmary18 mi
- Westmorland General Hospital23 mi
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