Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will increase the number of community diagnostic centres in Romford constituency.

Although ministers approve the final CDC location, these locations are initially proposed by the National Health Service. Business cases for CDCs are formulated by the relevant NHS integrated care board (ICB), which considers population density and growth data and deprivation scores to advise on the most appropriate CDC locations and models.

Whilst there is not a CDC in every constituency, the NHS has ensured that each ICB will have at least a standard model of CDC. There are three CDCs in North East London ICB, which patients in the Romford constituency may be able to access:

- Barking Community Hospital CDC – standard CDC

- Mile End CDC – standard CDC

- St George’s Hornchurch CDC – spoke CDC