How long is the wait for an echocardiogram (heart scan) at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital?
The NHS does not publish echocardiogram waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Gloucestershire Royal 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 Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have waited longer than 7 weeks. 55% have been waiting more than six weeks, against an NHS standard that fewer than 1% should.
Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Gloucestershire Royal Hospital
A shorter echocardiogram queue, straight-line from this hospital's own location — so this list is specific to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital.
- Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust · Worcester2w · 23 mi · 5w faster
- Wye Valley NHS Trust · Herefordshire, County of3w · 24 mi · 4w faster
- North Bristol NHS Trust · Bristol, City of2w · 30 mi · 5w faster
- Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Swindon2w · 31 mi · 5w faster
- University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust · Bristol, City of2w · 32 mi · 5w faster
- Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust · Bath and North East Somerset4w · 34 mi · 3w faster
Other hospitals run by Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Same trust, so the queue above applies at these too — your echocardiogram could be at any of them.
- Cheltenham General Hospital7 mi
- Delancey Hospital7 mi
- Stroud General Hospital9 mi
- Cirencester Hospital15 mi
- Fairford Hospital22 mi
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