How long is the wait for an echocardiogram (heart scan) at Royal Free Hospital?
The NHS does not publish echocardiogram waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Royal Free 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 Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust have waited longer than 3 weeks. 18% have been waiting more than six weeks, against an NHS standard that fewer than 1% should.
Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Royal Free Hospital
A shorter echocardiogram queue, straight-line from this hospital's own location — so this list is specific to Royal Free Hospital.
- University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Camden2w · 2 mi · 1w faster
- The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust · Kensington and Chelsea2w · 4 mi · 1w faster
- Barts Health NHS Trust · Tower Hamlets2w · 5 mi · 1w faster
- Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust · Hackney2w · 5 mi · 1w faster
- Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust · Lewisham2w · 9 mi · 1w faster
- St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Wandsworth2w · 9 mi · 1w faster
Other hospitals run by Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Same trust, so the queue above applies at these too — your echocardiogram could be at any of them.
- North Middlesex Hospital6 mi
- Barnet Hospital7 mi
- Hadley Wood Hospital7 mi
- Chase Farm Hospital8 mi
- St Michael's Hospital8 mi
- Mount Vernon Hospital13 mi
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