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BBC News
27-07-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Bridgwater £17.8m diagnostic centre to improve access to 'vital scans'
A hospital trust has moved a step forward in its plans to construct a £17.8m diagnostic centre to improve access to vital NHS Foundation Trust has been given approval by NHS England to construct the facility next to Bridgwater Community Hospital. It said it has now applied for planning permission, which if approved could see the facility open next centre will run a range of services including two CT scanners, two MRI scanners, four outpatient rooms and two echocardiography and ultrasound director David Craig said the centre is "expected to provide almost 25,000 additional scans every year". This will enable the centre to provide the Bridgwater population with routine and specialist cardiac and cancer scanning, alongside clinics. It follows the opening of a community diagnostic centre in Taunton in 2020, as well as the development of a diagnostic centre next to Yeovil Hospital, which is expected to open later this year."This development is fantastic news for people in Bridgwater and will improve access to vital healthcare scans, as well as help us to reduce our waiting times," Mr Craig said."The new centre supports one of the three shifts of the NHS 10 Year Plan, which involves transferring care from hospitals into local communities."Running across seven days a week, it will improve access for people in Bridgwater and the surrounding areas to specialist care, with the centre expected to provide almost 25,000 additional scans every year."
BBC News
08-07-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Plans for NHS diagnostic centre in Peterborough win approval
Plans for a community diagnostic centre aimed at reducing patient waiting times have been means building work can begin next month on the facility in Wellington Street, Peterborough, which should be open in West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust, which submitted the plans, said it would offer scans and cardiology and respiratory diagnostic Coffey, its chief executive, said she was "incredibly pleased" that planning approval had been granted. "As an organisation, we are working tirelessly on reducing diagnostic wait times, and opening the [centre] will undoubtedly improve patient experience," she Coffey said the government's 10-year plan for the NHS had highlighted the need to shift care out of hospitals and into the centre will have CT, MRI, Dexa, X-ray, ultrasound and fibroscan Pakes, the Labour MP for Peterborough, said it would ease pressure on hospitals."As Peterborough grows, we need local services that grow with us," he said."This centre is a big boost for patients and for our brilliant NHS staff."The plans were approved by Peterborough City Council on Monday. Follow Peterborough news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
BBC News
04-07-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Cumbria's £19m new diagnostic centre set for opening
A £19m diagnostic health centre is set to open to patients later this month, health bosses have confirmed. North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust (NCIC) said it had taken ownership of the Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) in work has been ongoing at the town centre site for over a year, with the centre set to provide MRI, CT, X-ray, ultrasound and lung function tests to the local community. Dr Adrian Clements, executive medical director, said the centre would "make a huge difference" to those living across Cumbria. "Having a centre like this embedded in the local community is key to the future of the NHS," he forms part of a national programme to improve local access to diagnostic testing. The £19m funding was secured from the national CDC programme, which aims to reduce health inequalities in the region by providing people with access to care closer to home. The trust said it had been handed the keys to the building by construction firm Graham and it had come in on time and on are due to begin training before it is set for a phased opening to patients later this month. Follow BBC Cumbria on X, Facebook, Nextdoor and Instagram.
BBC News
30-06-2025
- Health
- BBC News
New £11.7m community diagnostic test centre opens in Corby
A new £11.7m diagnostic centre that will deliver about 93,000 tests a year has opened in a Corby Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) at the Willowbrook Health Centre site will also see procedures such as MRIs and ultrasound scans carried will be open seven days a week between the hours of 08:00 and 20:00, with patients referred to it for tests by their GP or by hospital Grimmett, the director of strategy at University Hospitals of Northamptonshire NHS Group, said the building was "an important development for local people offering a variety of tests away from our busy main hospital site". She added: "It will provide testing in the community, in as few visits as possible, enabling an accurate and fast diagnosis on a range of clinical pathways. "It will support GPs and hospital staff in diagnosing many major health conditions such as cancer, respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases (CVD), stroke and diabetes, at an earlier point."In turn this will help us to treat and better manage these conditions and reduce the risk of emergency attendances in hospital." The Corby CDC plan was first announced in early 2023 with public engagement events held in October of that year, as the scheme went through council planning approvals. Work started on the Corby site in June 2024 and was completed last centre saw its first echocardiography patients on 18 June and CT and MRI scans started from 23 will be run by the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire in partnership with Alliance Medical, an independent sector supplier, and has been funded centrally as part of national initiatives to deliver from CDCs across the CDC in Corby will also deliver a variety of other respiratory, heart and blood tests. These will include a dementia pathway designed to speed up diagnosis and awareness for patients with suspected dementia using MRI or CT diagnostic tests. Follow Northamptonshire news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
Yahoo
28-06-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
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
