Community Diagnostic Centres and Surgical Hubs

(asked on 2nd May 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to publish a formal evaluation of the effectiveness of (a) surgical hubs and (b) community diagnostic centres in increasing (i) elective care and (ii) diagnostic capacity.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 10th May 2023

In June 2022, the Department commissioned the National Institute for Health and Care Research Policy Research Unit in the Economics of Health Systems and Interface with Social Care to lead a report on the potential impact of surgical hubs and Community Diagnostic Centres. A final report is expected in December 2023 and will then be published.

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