General Practitioners: Tomography

(asked on 27th January 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they maintain a complete, current, and accurate list of all establishments to which a GP can refer a patient for a scan, including the new community diagnostic hubs, and if so, what is the URL of the website hosting this list.


Answered by
Baroness Merron Portrait
Baroness Merron
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 4th February 2025

The Department does not hold a central list of all establishments to which a general practitioner can refer a patient for a scan.

The Organisation Data Service, operated by NHS Digital, holds and publishes unique identification codes and accompanying reference data for organisations that are involved in health and social care in England and beyond. This covers a wide variety of National Health Service and non-NHS organisations, such as NHS trusts and independent sector healthcare providers, including those that provide diagnostic scans.

A list of community diagnostic centres (CDCs) is published by NHS England, and is available on the NHS.UK website, in an online only format. Where a newly opened CDC starts to deliver activity, this will be captured in an updated publication. This includes temporary CDC sites that are delivering services on an interim basis whilst the permanent CDC site is under construction.

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