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Community Diagnostic Centres: Young People

Commons · Question 129971 · Tabled 27 Apr 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 29 Apr 2026

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Asked by Clive Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference his Department's press release entitled NHS patients to get quicker tests and scans closer to home, published on 13 April 2026, whether teenagers and young adults will have access to

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Answered by Karin Smyth, 29 Apr 2026

The Department is committed to transforming diagnostic services and will support the National Health Service to increase diagnostic capacity to bring down the size of the list and reduce waiting times. The Department also recognises that teenagers and you...