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Community Diagnostic Centres: Essex and Suffolk

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.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
7 Jan 2025
Target answer date
9 Jan 2025
Answer
13 Jan 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 7 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    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.

  2. 9 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 13 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    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...

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