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Community Diagnostic Centres: Essex and Suffolk

Commons · Question 22243 · Tabled 7 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 13 Jan 2025

Question

Asked by Sir Bernard Jenkin

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Oral Statement of 6 January 2026 on Health and Adult Social Care Reform, Official Report, Column 597, where new diagnostic centres in (a) Essex and (b) Suffolk will be based.

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 13 Jan 2025

The Elective Reform Plan, published on 6 January 2025, sets out that we will deliver additional community diagnostic centre (CDC) capacity in 2025/26 by expanding a number of existing CDCs and building up to five new ones. Capital investment agreed at the...