Abstract Time has not often been the subject of dedicated conceptual attention in health geography, but one does not need to dig very deep in the literature to uncover diverse engagements with it across empirical research. Framed by particular theoretical understandings of time, this paper reviews these engagements and how they have helped shape geographical knowledge of disease, health and care. Whilst these engagements are welcomed, the paper also highlights the possibility of going further by focusing on systems fundamental to 21st‐century society. Specifically, it describes the need to develop approaches that might ‘keep time with the trouble’ by capturing and intervening in the timings of the new faster, technologically mediated, affective capitalism in its use, creation and diminishing of health and well‐being.