Endoscopy: Finance

(asked on 3rd November 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how much of the £2.3 billion announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to transform diagnostic services will be used to implement the recommendations from Sir Mike Richards 2020 review of services to rebuild and expand endoscopy services.


Answered by
Lord Kamall Portrait
Lord Kamall
This question was answered on 17th November 2021

The National Health Service is transforming diagnostics services in line with the recommendations from Sir Mike Richards’ Review: Diagnostics Recovery and Renewal, including rolling out at least 100 Community Diagnostic Centres (CDCs) by 2024/25. The Government has made £2.3 billion available to support this transformation over the next three years.

The Department and NHS England and NHS Improvement are working with Regions and local systems to determine how the funding will be divided across diagnostics services. The amount for improving endoscopy services specifically and how these services will be improved is still being finalised.

The funding is on top of the £325 million announced for this year, which is supporting the roll out of over 40 CDCs across England, many of which will provide additional endoscopy capacity.

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