Extra funding for Community Diagnostic Centres is welcome

Responding to the announcement of additional investment in Community Diagnostic Centres, Rory Deighton, acute care director at The NHS Alliance, said:

"This is a welcome investment in expanding diagnostic capacity through new community diagnostic centres (CDCs), helping patients access tests, checks and scans more quickly and closer to home.
 
"NHS leaders know that CDCs can improve efficiency, cut waiting times and ease pressure on hospitals.
 
"Opening new CDCs is a clear example of how capital investment in the NHS can speed up diagnosis and treatment. A decade of underinvestment in capital has left the health service struggling with outdated buildings and too few modern diagnostic machines. Capital funding is essential if the NHS is to buy the scanners and equipment needed to make it fit for the future."