How long is the wait for an echocardiogram (heart scan) at St Mary's Hospital?
The NHS does not publish echocardiogram waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust, which runs St Mary's 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 University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust have waited longer than 5 weeks. 42% have been waiting more than six weeks, against an NHS standard that fewer than 1% should.
Faster hospitals within 100 miles of St Mary's Hospital
A shorter echocardiogram queue, straight-line from this hospital's own location — so this list is specific to St Mary's Hospital.
- Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust · Wiltshire2w · 24 mi · 3w faster
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust · New Forest3w · 24 mi · 2w faster
- University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust · Southampton4w · 28 mi · 1w faster
- Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust · Portsmouth4w · 40 mi · 1w faster
- Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust · Bath and North East Somerset4w · 50 mi · 1w faster
- Somerset NHS Foundation Trust · Somerset2w · 54 mi · 3w faster
Other hospitals run by University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
Same trust, so the queue above applies at these too — your echocardiogram could be at any of them.
- Poole Hospital0 mi
- Royal Bournemouth Hospital7 mi
- Christchurch Hospital8 mi
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