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BBC News
26-05-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Stratford health diagnostic centre set to open in June
A health trust has said services at its new centre will be up and running from Stratford community diagnostic centre is being built using £6m of national funding and a £1m community infrastructure levy grant from Stratford District Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust said the phased timeline for services would see mammography begin first, from 9 June, followed by ultrasound on 16 and cardiology services would run from 23 June and CT from 14 July. The centre is part of a national programme to transform diagnostic services by offering a wide range of elective tests outside of hospital settings, the trust Rai, the trust's interim associate chief operating officer, said it would reduce hospital pressures and cut waiting times."Stratford's new Community Diagnostic Centre is already transforming patient care by bringing key diagnostic services closer to home.""It gives our patients quicker access in a calmer, more convenient setting. "This new model not only supports earlier diagnosis and treatment, but reflects a real shift towards delivering healthcare where it's most needed, easing the pressure at our acute hospital sites." Follow BBC Coventry & Warwickshire on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Town to get two new high-tech bone scanners
Grimsby is to get two new bone scanning machines to help spot conditions such as osteoporosis. The DEXA machines will be installed at Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital and the new Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC), due to open at Freshney Place later this year. The hospital scanner will be used on frailer patients and is one of 13 in England funded by the government. Announcing the funding, Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting said the new machines would provide an extra 30,000 scans a year nationwide. Craig Jones, chief executive of the Royal Osteoporosis Society, said people in Grimsby who have undiagnosed osteoporosis were "going to benefit enormously" from the new machines. "Osteoporosis can cause life-threatening fractures, bringing hospitalisation and isolation," he said. "This new scanner will diagnose thousands of patients early, giving them back the lives and futures they deserve." According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, the new unit at the CDC will allow GPs to send patients for a scan without needing to refer them for a hospital consultation. Listen to highlights from Lincolnshire on BBC Sounds, watch the latest episode of Look North or tell us about a story you think we should be covering here. NHS testing centres to open in two towns Hospital opens two emergency care units Local Democracy Reporting Service
