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Tests 'closer to home' as new diagnostic centre opens
A £24.6 million community diagnostic centre has opened in Hinckley. The Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care Board (LLR ICB) says the centre is the first of it's kind in the county. The facility aims to offer patients a wide range of diagnostic tests closer to home, it says, to ease pressure on busy hospitals. Located next to the site of the former Hinckley and District Community Hospital in Mount Road, it will provide tests such as CT and MRI scans, X-rays and ultrasounds, phlebotomy, dermatology, audiology assessments and endoscopy. The centre is expected to undertake 70,000 tests this year, increasing to more than 80,000 next year, the LLR ICB said. Ros Chadwin, 52, from Burbage in Leicestershire, said she was able to have an X-ray in her lunch break after the centre opened on Friday. "I was able to nip out and have it done, and nip back. She added: "I've even got time to take the dog for a walk!" Judith Spiers, head of nursing for community hospitals in Leicester, said: "The patients won't need to travel to the main hospitals, which takes pressure off the roads and the parking, but also it takes pressure off those sites so we can do the acute care there and the diagnostics can be done in centres like this." Helen Hendley, director of planned care for LLR ICB, said: "It's going to make such a difference to the local area." "We have made such inroads with our long waits for patients across the patch, but we know if we can get our diagnostics tests in quicker, we can then get to a treatment plan faster too." Officially opening the centre was Conservative MP for Hinckley and Bosworth, Dr Luke Evans. He said: "The next step is the £10 million day case unit over the road that we are working on, so that people can have their operations done here as well. "The two centres would compliment each other perfectly." Follow BBC Leicester on Facebook, on X, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@ or via WhatsApp on 0808 100 2210. Go-ahead for multi-million pound diagnostic centre Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care Board
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13 hours ago
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Tests 'closer to home' as new diagnostic centre opens in Hinckley
A £24.6 million community diagnostic centre has opened in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care Board (LLR ICB) says the centre is the first of it's kind in the facility aims to offer patients a wide range of diagnostic tests closer to home, it says, to ease pressure on busy hospitals. Located next to the site of the former Hinckley and District Community Hospital in Mount Road, it will provide tests such as CT and MRI scans, X-rays and ultrasounds, phlebotomy, dermatology, audiology assessments and endoscopy. The centre is expected to undertake 70,000 tests this year, increasing to more than 80,000 next year, the LLR ICB Chadwin, 52, from Burbage in Leicestershire, said she was able to have an X-ray in her lunch break after the centre opened on Friday."I was able to nip out and have it done, and nip added: "I've even got time to take the dog for a walk!" Judith Spiers, head of nursing for community hospitals in Leicester, said: "The patients won't need to travel to the main hospitals, which takes pressure off the roads and the parking, but also it takes pressure off those sites so we can do the acute care there and the diagnostics can be done in centres like this." Helen Hendley, director of planned care for LLR ICB, said: "It's going to make such a difference to the local area.""We have made such inroads with our long waits for patients across the patch, but we know if we can get our diagnostics tests in quicker, we can then get to a treatment plan faster too." Officially opening the centre was Conservative MP for Hinckley and Bosworth, Dr Luke Evans. He said: "The next step is the £10 million day case unit over the road that we are working on, so that people can have their operations done here as well."The two centres would compliment each other perfectly."
BBC News
16-05-2025
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Work begins on new medical testing centre in Cornwall
Work has started on the construction of a new medical testing centre in community diagnostic centre on the Camborne Redruth Community Hospital site will offer tests such as X-rays, MRI and CT scans, blood tests, heart checks and Cornwall and Isles of Scilly chief nursing officer Susan Bracefield said the centre would help deliver services closer to people's said the site, which is due to open later in the year, was expected to be used by about 75,000 patients. Ms Bracefield said more than 96,000 tests were carried out at community diagnostic centres in Bodmin and Penzance, "giving quicker access to important scans and tests"."This new centre at Redruth will mean even more patients can benefit from tests closer to home and a shorter wait for diagnosis and perhaps treatment," she said.
BBC News
14-05-2025
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Chelmsley Wood Shopping Centre NHS base bids to cut waiting lists
NHS bosses in the West Midlands have said a new patient testing centre will help to bring down waiting lists, meaning illnesses can be identified and treated £15m North Solihull Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) was officially opened on Wednesday, but has been offering appointments since last is thought to be the first site of its kind in the region based at a shopping centre and is providing X-rays, CT scans and ultrasounds, among other Kinnock, minister of state for care, attended the opening at Chelmsley Wood Shopping Centre and said it was "really important to see the shift from hospital to community". Jo Tolley, from the NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board (ICB), said the facility would benefit Solihull residents, who lived in "the top 10% of the most deprived areas in the country". "Men [in Solihull] have a 12-year shorter life expectancy than average and women a 11.1-year, so putting this facility in their locality enables them to access the services closer to their home," she said. Tim Denton-Hawkes had waited more than six months for an appointment to investigate his back pain and was one of the first people to benefit from the tests at the centre. He said the facility was a "grand idea" and something the health service "should have done some years ago". Margaret Storer also received tests on the opening day and said the facility was "very useful" for older people, like herself. "You haven't got to get on a lot of buses, it's just local which is what we needed," she said. The facility is one of 160 CDCs being rolled out across the country, 30 of which are in the Midlands. A spokesperson for the ICB said the centres had "played a vital role in helping to identify and treat illnesses quicker", in addition to "further helping reduce pressure on hospitals and enabling speedier diagnosis so patients receive potentially life-saving care sooner". Patients from North Solihull and the greater Birmingham area are being offered an appointment at the new facility after they have been referred by a clinician - typically a GP or hospital consultant. More than 65,000 diagnostic tests are expected to take place at the centre every year. Solihull resident Emma McAdorey said she had previously "waited months for an appointment", but the new centre had changed that. "Now, we went to our GP and two weeks later we've got an appointment at the new Chelmsley centre, the waiting times have been cut down a lot." she said. The facility is open seven days a week from 08:00 until 20:00. Follow BBC Birmingham on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
