Community Diagnostic Centres
(asked on 29th November 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 10 November to Question 75915 on Community Diagnostic Centres: Staff, what diagnostic (a) services and (b) processes are covered by digital diagnostics; and what investment has been made in each.
Digital diagnostics will ensure that all community diagnostic centres are connected to digitally enabled imaging and pathology networks, which will improve the time taken to obtain results and maximise productivity. The following table shows funding allocated in the Spending Review 2021 settlement for services in digital diagnostics in each year from 2022/23 to 2024/25.
| 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 | Total |
Laboratory information management systems and interoperability | £55.18 million | £48.97 million | £46.9 million | £151.05 million |
Digital pathology | £41 million | £21.93 million | £13.9 million | £76.83 million |
Image sharing | £44.1 million | £37.97 million | £32.84 million | £114.91 million |
Home reporting | £7.16 million | £1.15 million | £0.2 million | £8.51 million |
iRefer | £9.92 million | £3.02 million | £1.4 million | £14.34 million |
Magnetic resonance imaging acceleration | £11.25 million | £0 | £0 | £11.25 million |
Cases under review | £6.69 million | £0 | £0 | £6.69 million |
Total | £175.3 million | £113.04 million | £95.24 million | £383.58 million |
Source: NHS England
Note:
Funding is rounded to the nearest £10,000.