Written question asked by Julie Marson (Conservative) on Wednesday, 29 November 2023, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 5 December 2023 (named day). It was answered by Victoria Atkins (Conservative) on Tuesday, 5 December 2023 on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care.

Community Diagnostic Centres

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress she has made on increasing the number of community diagnostic centres.

Answer

Thanks to the hard work of NHS teams, the government is on track to not only meet our ambition of opening 160 community diagnostic centres more broadly across England by March 2025, but to exceed it.
This will represent a step change in how diagnostics is deployed in the UK and directly supports our agenda to make access to health services faster for patients.
136 centres are currently operational, and over 5 million additional tests have been delivered since July 2021. This includes the centre in my honourable friends’ constituency, Bishop’s Stortford CDC.
I am pleased to endorse the Hon. Members' welcome of the new CDC. Bishops Stortford CDC has been delivering tests and checks to patients since Sept this year.

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