Written questions

Community Diagnostic Centres

Commons · Question 36926 · Tabled 10 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 17 Mar 2025

Question

Asked by Clive Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department plans to provide for Community Diagnostic Centres in the 2025-26 financial year; and if he will take steps to improve access to these centres in each region.

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 17 Mar 2025

The Elective Reform Plan, published in January 2025, committed to expanding existing community diagnostic centres (CDCs), as well as building up to five new ones in 25/26, to support the National Health Service to return to meeting the elective waiting ti...