How long is the wait for an echocardiogram (heart scan) at Luton & Dunstable Hospital?
The NHS does not publish echocardiogram waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Luton & Dunstable 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 Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have waited longer than 6 weeks. 50% have been waiting more than six weeks, against an NHS standard that fewer than 1% should.
Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Luton & Dunstable Hospital
A shorter echocardiogram queue, straight-line from this hospital's own location — so this list is specific to Luton & Dunstable Hospital.
- East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust · Stevenage2w · 11 mi · 4w faster
- Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Milton Keynes4w · 14 mi · 2w faster
- West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust · Watford3w · 17 mi · 3w faster
- Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust · Buckinghamshire4w · 17 mi · 2w faster
- The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Hillingdon2w · 25 mi · 4w faster
- The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust · Harlow1w · 25 mi · 5w faster
Other hospitals run by Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Same trust, so the queue above applies at these too — your echocardiogram could be at any of them.
- Bedford Hospital16 mi
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