Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of community diagnostic centres offer echocardiogram tests.

Since the first Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) opened in July 2021, 29 CDCs have offered echocardiogram (ECG) tests, delivering a total of 23,741 ECGs between them. This may include temporary sites, which provided additional capacity after the pandemic that have since been replaced or closed. We do not, therefore, hold data on the proportion of CDCs, which offer echocardiogram tests.

As ECGs are part of the core test for all standard or large CDCs, the number of CDCs offering ECGs will grow over the next year as operational CDCs bring the full range of core tests on stream.