NHS diagnostic waits · Canterbury · echocardiogram (heart scan)

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

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

4weeks

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

Half of the people waiting for an echocardiogram (heart scan) at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust have waited longer than 4 weeks. 20% have been waiting more than six weeks, against an NHS standard that fewer than 1% should.

Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Kent & Canterbury Hospital

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

  • Medway NHS Foundation Trust · Medway3w · 25 mi · 1w faster
  • Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust · Maidstone3w · 26 mi · 1w faster
  • Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust · Dartford2w · 38 mi · 2w faster
  • Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust · Havering2w · 44 mi · 2w faster
  • East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust · Colchester2w · 45 mi · 2w faster
  • Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Mid Sussex3w · 48 mi · 1w faster

Other hospitals run by East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust

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

  • William Harvey Hospital11 mi
  • One Ashford Hospital11 mi
  • Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital15 mi

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