NHS diagnostic waits · Lincoln · echocardiogram (heart scan)

How long is the wait for an echocardiogram (heart scan) at Grantham & District Hospital?

The NHS does not publish echocardiogram waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs Grantham & District Hospital, and it is the current echocardiogram queue that applies to you here — the list as it stands this month, not a prediction.

7weeks

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

Half of the people waiting for an echocardiogram (heart scan) at United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust have waited longer than 7 weeks. 54% have been waiting more than six weeks, against an NHS standard that fewer than 1% should.

Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Grantham & District Hospital

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

  • Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust · Nottingham5w · 23 mi · 2w faster
  • North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust · Peterborough5w · 28 mi · 2w faster
  • University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust · Leicester4w · 29 mi · 3w faster
  • Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · North Northamptonshire4w · 36 mi · 3w faster
  • University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust · Derby3w · 36 mi · 4w faster
  • Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Chesterfield2w · 38 mi · 5w faster

Other hospitals run by United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

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

  • Lincoln County Hospital22 mi
  • Johnson Hospital22 mi
  • Welland Hospital23 mi
  • Pilgrim Hospital27 mi
  • John Coupland Hospital34 mi
  • County Hospital Louth41 mi

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