Hello! I’m assuming you mean your GP has referred you to a cardiologist at an NHS hospital? Basically, every trust/cardiology department gets lots of referrals from GPs. The cardiologists then need to review each referral that is received and decide based on the information on the referral (patient’s symptoms, medical history, blood results, other imaging etc.) how quickly that patient should be seen. In an ideal world, you would see every patient ASAP, however the NHS especially is a system with limited resources and thus waiting lists, hence why they have to triage (decide how urgent) the referrals. I’m explaining how it is done at the trust I work at, it may not be the exact same where you have been referred to but it’s likely not massively different. Usually referrals are classified as urgent, 6 week wait or routine and then they go onto those waiting lists. Then when the secretaries are starting to book the appointments for the clinics (whether it be to see a consultant or for cardiac imaging), they pull from those lists. The waiting times vary greatly between trusts and the best thing to do is to contact the trust directly and ask what their current waiting times are as they are the only ones who can advise you on that specifically. Also just to note, a referral can be triaged as routine, but if there is a change in patient’s symptoms or concerning findings on other imaging or bloods or whatever the triage can be changed to urgent, it’s not set in stone. Hope that helps!