Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many of each type of diagnostic test available in Community Diagnostic Hubs was delivered in each month between June 2019 and June 2021.

Neither the Department nor NHS England conducted a public consultation on the diagnostic (a) tests, (b) procedures and (c) equipment available at Community Diagnostic Centres (CDCs). This is because the selection of core services offered by CDCs is a clinical decision and based on the requirements of patients on the waiting list. Core services for standard and large model CDCs are based on recommendations from Sir Mike Richards Review, Diagnostics: Recovery and Renewal, published in November 2020.

For individual CDCs, and proposed spoke site modalities, the inclusion of additional services is based on their own local assessment of clinical need. Public engagement for location and design of CDCs is recommended as part of national guidance.

Community Diagnostic Centres started reporting activity from July 2021. The government does not hold data on activity recorded prior to July 2021 for Community Diagnostic Centres.