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 provide echocardiography through handheld echocardiograms.

The information requested is not held centrally. Community Diagnostic Centres (CDCs), are required to deliver full echocardiography scanning functionality and are funded to install the same level of echocardiography equipment as is used in acute hospitals.