Written questions

Community Diagnostic Centres: Costs

Commons · Question 61878 · Tabled 23 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 4 Jul 2025

Question

Asked by Louie French

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the tariff rate per patient was for (a) CT, (b) MRI and (c) ultrasound scans delivered in community diagnostic centres on (ii) 1 March and (ii) 1 June 2025.

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 4 Jul 2025

The community diagnostic centre (CDC) tariff price list has evolved to align with the national payment scheme from April 2025. Tariff prices in CDCs are now consistent with acute and primary care provision so that the cost of the delivery of diagnostics i...