How long is the wait for an echocardiogram (heart scan) at Royal Preston Hospital?
The NHS does not publish echocardiogram waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Royal Preston 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 Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have waited longer than 3 weeks. 28% have been waiting more than six weeks, against an NHS standard that fewer than 1% should.
Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Royal Preston Hospital
A shorter echocardiogram queue, straight-line from this hospital's own location — so this list is specific to Royal Preston Hospital.
- East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust · Blackburn with Darwen2w · 11 mi · 1w faster
- Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust · Manchester2w · 30 mi · 1w faster
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust · Bradford2w · 31 mi · 1w faster
- Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust · Wirral2w · 31 mi · 1w faster
- The Christie NHS Foundation Trust · Manchester2w · 32 mi · 1w faster
- Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Wirral2w · 33 mi · 1w faster
Other hospitals run by Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Same trust, so the queue above applies at these too — your echocardiogram could be at any of them.
- Ramsey Buckshawe Hospital7 mi
- Chorley & South Ribble Hospital9 mi
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