NHS diagnostic waits · Wakefield · echocardiogram (heart scan)

How long is the wait for an echocardiogram (heart scan) at Pontefract General Infirmary?

The NHS does not publish echocardiogram waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust, which runs Pontefract General Infirmary, and it is the current echocardiogram queue that applies to you here — the list as it stands this month, not a prediction.

2weeks

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

Half of the people waiting for an echocardiogram (heart scan) at Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust have waited longer than 2 weeks. 0% have been waiting more than six weeks, against an NHS standard that fewer than 1% should.

Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Pontefract General Infirmary

A shorter echocardiogram queue, straight-line from this hospital's own location — so this list is specific to Pontefract General Infirmary.

  • Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Doncaster1w · 14 mi · 1w faster
  • Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust · Birmingham1w · 87 mi · 1w faster
  • University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust · Coventry1w · 88 mi · 1w faster
  • South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust · Warwick1w · 97 mi · 1w faster

Other hospitals run by Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust

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

  • Pinderfields General Hospital7 mi
  • Dewsbury & District Hospital14 mi

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