The government will meet its target to open 160 community diagnostic centres a year early, the Health and Social Care Secretary will announce today [31 October 2023].
All 160 centres will be open by March 2024, a year ahead of the original March 2025 target - speeding up access to potentially lifesaving tests and checks.
The programme constitutes the largest central cash investment in MRI and CT scanning capacity in the history of the NHS and has already delivered more than five million additional tests, checks and scans across the country. The new centres will provide capacity for nine million more by 2025 as part of the NHS and government's plan to recover services following the pandemic.
The government has announced three of the final locations which will serve tens of thousands of patients, with all set to open in December 2023. They are: Any patient who has been waiting longer than 40 weeks and does not have an appointment within the next eight weeks will be contacted by their hospital via letter, text, or email. The 400,000 eligible patients who will then be able to submit their details including how far they are willing to travel.
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