NHS diagnostic waits · County Durham · Echocardiogram
Echocardiogram (heart scan) waiting time at Shotley Bridge Hospital
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NHS DM01 data, August 2026
Where it’s done at Shotley Bridge Hospital
Echocardiogram is done in the cardiology department at County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust. To be seen you usually need a referral: most people are referred by their GP, and some by a hospital specialist. Once referred, the appointment comes by letter, text or the NHS App.
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1Free on the NHS
Stay on the NHS for your scan
Wait the NHS scan queue. 4 weeks typical wait here.
2Free on the NHS
Switch to a faster NHS hospital for your scan
When your GP refers you for your echocardiogram, Right to Choose lets you ask to go to a faster NHS hospital.
3Part paid
Private scan, keep your NHS place
Pay for the scan privately, then rejoin the NHS for treatment.
4Self funded or insured
Go fully private
The scan and any follow-up, all private.
More about County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust
How deep the queue is now
Share of the current echocardiogram queue at this trust by whether they have passed six weeks, August 2026. The NHS standard is that fewer than 1% wait over six weeks.
NHS hospitals near County Durham
Shotley Bridge Hospital (current)
0 mi
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust · Sunderland
17 mi
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust · North Tyneside
18 mi
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Middlesbrough
33 mi
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust · Cumberland
44 mi
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust · Westmorland and Furness
53 mi
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust · Bradford
67 mi
Median echocardiogram wait so far in the current queue, August 2026, straight-line from this hospital. Switching does not guarantee a shorter wait.
How we know this
NHS DM01 diagnostics data, August 2026.
The whole trust (County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust), a current-queue snapshot, not a prediction.
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