How long is the wait for an echocardiogram (heart scan) at Leigh Infirmary?
The NHS does not publish echocardiogram waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Leigh Infirmary, 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 North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust have waited longer than 3 weeks. 26% have been waiting more than six weeks, against an NHS standard that fewer than 1% should.
Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Leigh Infirmary
A shorter echocardiogram queue, straight-line from this hospital's own location — so this list is specific to Leigh Infirmary.
- Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust · Manchester2w · 12 mi · 1w faster
- The Christie NHS Foundation Trust · Manchester2w · 13 mi · 1w faster
- East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust · Blackburn with Darwen2w · 16 mi · 1w faster
- Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust · Tameside2w · 18 mi · 1w faster
- Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust · Wirral2w · 23 mi · 1w faster
- Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Wirral2w · 26 mi · 1w faster
Other hospitals run by North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust
Same trust, so the queue above applies at these too — your echocardiogram could be at any of them.
- Warrington Hospital9 mi
- Altrincham General Hospital11 mi
- Halton Hospital15 mi
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