NHS diagnostic waits · Stockport · echocardiogram (heart scan)

How long is the wait for an echocardiogram (heart scan) at Stepping Hill Hospital?

The NHS does not publish echocardiogram waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Stepping Hill Hospital, and it is the current echocardiogram queue that applies to you here — the list as it stands this month, not a prediction.

3weeks

Updated June 2026 · (the NHS diagnostics waiting-list return)

Half of the people waiting for an echocardiogram (heart scan) at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust have waited longer than 3 weeks. 11% have been waiting more than six weeks, against an NHS standard that fewer than 1% should.

Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Stepping Hill Hospital

A shorter echocardiogram queue, straight-line from this hospital's own location — so this list is specific to Stepping Hill Hospital.

  • The Christie NHS Foundation Trust · Manchester2w · 5 mi · 1w faster
  • Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust · Manchester2w · 7 mi · 1w faster
  • Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust · Tameside2w · 8 mi · 1w faster
  • Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Cheshire East2w · 23 mi · 1w faster
  • Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust · Sheffield2w · 26 mi · 1w faster
  • East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust · Blackburn with Darwen2w · 28 mi · 1w faster

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