Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC's) have been designed to increase the capacity of diagnostics.Providing community based access to diagnostic services, leaving hospital site diagnostics additional capacity to manage emergency and non-elective inpatient workload.
Community Diagnostic Centres offer more comprehensive, coordinated diagnostic testing for patients in one site, closer to home, enabling faster and earlier diagnosis of conditions such as cancer and heart disease, and help patients access the life-saving treatments they need quickly.
Each Community Diagnostic Centre will be a free standing multi-diagnostic facility that is located away from main acute hospital facilities.
In Northamptonshire we have two new CDC sites in progress or now open. One in Kings Heath and one in Corby.
Kings Heath Community Diagnostic Centre based a Kings Heath General Practice NN5 7LN
Corby Community Diagnostic Centre based at Willowbrook Health Complex NN17 2UW
The CDCs in Northamptonshire are run by the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire NHS Group, and the NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board oversee the work.