NHS diagnostic waits · Southend-on-Sea · ultrasound scan

How long is the wait for an ultrasound scan at Orsett Hospital?

The NHS does not publish scan waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Orsett Hospital, and it is the current ultrasound 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 ultrasound scan at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust have waited longer than 3 weeks. 29% have been waiting more than six weeks, against an NHS standard that fewer than 1% should.

Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Orsett Hospital

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

  • Medway NHS Foundation Trust · Medway2w · 12 mi · 1w faster
  • Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust · Maidstone2w · 17 mi · 1w faster
  • Barts Health NHS Trust · Tower Hamlets2w · 18 mi · 1w faster
  • Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust · Hackney2w · 18 mi · 1w faster
  • King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Lambeth2w · 20 mi · 1w faster
  • Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Islington1w · 20 mi · 2w faster

Other hospitals run by Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Same trust, so the queue above applies at these too — your scan could be at any of them.

  • Basildon Hospital5 mi
  • Southend Hospital14 mi
  • Mid Essex Hospital19 mi
  • St Michael's Hospital27 mi

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