How long is the wait for an echocardiogram (heart scan) at University Hospital Aintree?
The NHS does not publish echocardiogram waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs University Hospital Aintree, 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 Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have waited longer than 3 weeks. 18% have been waiting more than six weeks, against an NHS standard that fewer than 1% should.
Faster hospitals within 100 miles of University Hospital Aintree
A shorter echocardiogram queue, straight-line from this hospital's own location — so this list is specific to University Hospital Aintree.
- Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust · Wirral2w · 7 mi · 1w faster
- Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Wirral2w · 10 mi · 1w faster
- East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust · Blackburn with Darwen2w · 27 mi · 1w faster
- Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust · Manchester2w · 29 mi · 1w faster
- The Christie NHS Foundation Trust · Manchester2w · 29 mi · 1w faster
- Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Cheshire East2w · 31 mi · 1w faster
Other hospitals run by Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Same trust, so the queue above applies at these too — your echocardiogram could be at any of them.
- Walton Hospital2 mi
- Broadgreen Hospital4 mi
- Royal Liverpool University Hospital4 mi
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