How long is the wait for an echocardiogram (heart scan) at Southend Hospital?
The NHS does not publish echocardiogram waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Southend 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 Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust have waited longer than 10 weeks. 67% have been waiting more than six weeks, against an NHS standard that fewer than 1% should.
Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Southend Hospital
A shorter echocardiogram queue, straight-line from this hospital's own location — so this list is specific to Southend Hospital.
- Medway NHS Foundation Trust · Medway3w · 14 mi · 7w faster
- Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust · Dartford2w · 20 mi · 8w faster
- Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust · Maidstone3w · 21 mi · 7w faster
- Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust · Havering2w · 22 mi · 8w faster
- East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust · Colchester2w · 26 mi · 8w faster
- East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust · Canterbury4w · 26 mi · 6w faster
Other hospitals run by Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Same trust, so the queue above applies at these too — your echocardiogram could be at any of them.
- Basildon Hospital10 mi
- Orsett Hospital14 mi
- Mid Essex Hospital18 mi
- St Michael's Hospital23 mi
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