Question follow-through · 36926

Community Diagnostic Centres

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.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 10 Mar 2025
Target answer date: 12 Mar 2025
Answer: 17 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

10 Mar 2025
Question tabled
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.
12 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Mar 2025
Answer published
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...

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