NHS diagnostic waits · North East Lincolnshire · echocardiogram (heart scan)

How long is the wait for an echocardiogram (heart scan) at Scunthorpe General Hospital?

The NHS does not publish echocardiogram waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Scunthorpe General Hospital, and it is the current echocardiogram queue that applies to you here — the list as it stands this month, not a prediction.

3weeks

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

Half of the people waiting for an echocardiogram (heart scan) at Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust have waited longer than 3 weeks. 8% have been waiting more than six weeks, against an NHS standard that fewer than 1% should.

Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Scunthorpe General Hospital

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

  • Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Doncaster1w · 19 mi · 2w faster
  • Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust · Wakefield2w · 34 mi · 1w faster
  • Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust · Sheffield2w · 37 mi · 1w faster
  • Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust · Leeds2w · 38 mi · 1w faster
  • Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Chesterfield2w · 39 mi · 1w faster
  • Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Bradford2w · 49 mi · 1w faster

Other hospitals run by Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust

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

  • Goole & District Hospital12 mi
  • Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital24 mi

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