NHS diagnostic waits · Wigan · echocardiogram (heart scan)
Echocardiogram (heart scan) waiting time at Leigh Infirmary
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NHS DM01 data, July 2026
Cardiology at Leigh Infirmary
echocardiogram (heart scan) is carried out by the Cardiology department at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. To be seen you usually need a referral: most people are referred by their GP, and some by a hospital specialist. Once referred, the appointment comes by letter, text or the NHS App.
What an echocardiogram (heart scan) involves, on the NHS website →Your options from here
1Free on the NHS
Stay on the NHS for your scan
Wait the NHS scan queue. 3 wks typical wait here.
2Free on the NHS
Switch to a faster NHS hospital for your scan
When your GP refers you for your echocardiogram, Right to Choose lets you ask to go to a faster NHS hospital.
3Part paid
Private scan, keep your NHS place
Pay for the scan privately, then rejoin the NHS for treatment.
4Self funded or insured
Go fully private
The scan and any follow-up, all private.
More about Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
How deep the queue is now
Share of the current echocardiogram queue at this trust by whether they have passed six weeks, July 2026. The NHS standard is that fewer than 1% wait over six weeks.
NHS hospitals near Wigan
Leigh Infirmary (current)
0 mi
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust · Blackburn with Darwen
16 mi
Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Liverpool
17 mi
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust · Tameside
18 mi
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Preston
21 mi
Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust · Wirral
23 mi
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Wirral
26 mi
Median echocardiogram wait so far in the current queue, July 2026, straight-line from this hospital. Switching does not guarantee a shorter wait.
How we know this
NHS DM01 diagnostics data, July 2026.
The whole trust (Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust), a current-queue snapshot, not a prediction.
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