How long is the wait for an echocardiogram (heart scan) at Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother 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 Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother 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 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 Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital
A shorter echocardiogram queue, straight-line from this hospital's own location — so this list is specific to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital.
- Medway NHS Foundation Trust · Medway3w · 37 mi · 1w faster
- Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust · Maidstone3w · 40 mi · 1w faster
- East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust · Colchester2w · 42 mi · 2w faster
- Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust · Dartford2w · 49 mi · 2w faster
- Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust · Havering2w · 54 mi · 2w faster
- Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust · Lewisham2w · 61 mi · 2w 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.
- Kent & Canterbury Hospital15 mi
- William Harvey Hospital26 mi
- One Ashford Hospital26 mi
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