How long is the wait for an echocardiogram (heart scan) at St Albans City Hospital?
The NHS does not publish echocardiogram waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs St Albans City 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 West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust have waited longer than 3 weeks. 5% have been waiting more than six weeks, against an NHS standard that fewer than 1% should.
Faster hospitals within 100 miles of St Albans City Hospital
A shorter echocardiogram queue, straight-line from this hospital's own location — so this list is specific to St Albans City Hospital.
- East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust · Stevenage2w · 13 mi · 1w faster
- The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Hillingdon2w · 17 mi · 1w faster
- The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust · Harlow1w · 18 mi · 2w faster
- University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Camden2w · 18 mi · 1w faster
- Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust · Hackney2w · 19 mi · 1w faster
- The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust · Kensington and Chelsea2w · 20 mi · 1w faster
Other hospitals run by West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Same trust, so the queue above applies at these too — your echocardiogram could be at any of them.
- Watford General Hospital8 mi
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