Question follow-through · 92619
Community Diagnostic Centres and Surgical Hubs: Private Sector
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many of the community diagnostic centres and surgical hubs set up since July 2024 are run by private contractors.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 19 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 1 Dec 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many of the community diagnostic centres and surgical hubs set up since July 2024 are run by private contractors.
24 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Dec 2025
Answer published
Since July 2024, five new community diagnostic centres (CDCs) have started reporting activity for the very first time. None of these five will be run by the independent sector (IS) once they are fully operational. Of these five CDCs, the Thanet CDC is tem...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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