How long is the wait for an echocardiogram (heart scan) at St Helens Hospital?
The NHS does not publish echocardiogram waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs St Helens 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 Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust have waited longer than 4 weeks. 30% have been waiting more than six weeks, against an NHS standard that fewer than 1% should.
Faster hospitals within 100 miles of St Helens Hospital
A shorter echocardiogram queue, straight-line from this hospital's own location — so this list is specific to St Helens Hospital.
- North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust · Warrington3w · 5 mi · 1w faster
- Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Liverpool3w · 8 mi · 1w faster
- Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Liverpool3w · 10 mi · 1w faster
- Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust · Wirral2w · 13 mi · 2w faster
- Bolton NHS Foundation Trust · Bolton3w · 14 mi · 1w faster
- Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Wirral2w · 16 mi · 2w faster
Other hospitals run by Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Same trust, so the queue above applies at these too — your echocardiogram could be at any of them.
- Whiston Hospital3 mi
- Ormskirk and District General Hospital11 mi
- Southport and Formby District General Hospital17 mi
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