Asked by: Melanie Onn (Labour - Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate has been made of the percentage of appointments made in Community Diagnostic Centres; and if he will publish them.
Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The DM01 Diagnostics Waiting Times and Activity dataset is a monthly National Health Service statistical return that tracks waiting times and completed procedures for 15 key diagnostic tests across England.
Data for all settings is available at the following link:
Data for community diagnostic centres (CDCs) specifically is available at the following link:
CDC data is management information and so subject to less validation than official statistics.
The estimated percentage of non-emergency DM01 elective tests carried in CDCs for 2025/26 was 17.7%.