A new Community Diagnostic Centre is set to open in Redruth to support the wider Camborne and Redruth area and help local residents get the best care possible near to where they live. The new CDC will help achieve earlier diagnosis, ensuring that patients more quickly get the care they need. The Camborne and Redruth CDC - based in Forthnoweth, Redruth - will also, where possible, prioritise pre and post operative testing for patients treated in our expanding number of surgical hubs, to further drive elective activity and cut waiting lists.
The new centre will support the community by increasing diagnostic capacity and reduce waiting times, with state-of-the-art equipment to deliver CT, MRI, ultrasound, X-ray, echocardiography, cardiology, respiratory, pathology and endoscopy tests and scans. Once fully operational, the CDC will have capacity to deliver up to 74,284 checks, tests and scans a year. This CDC will be fully opening in 2024. While it is being constructed, additional diagnostic testing capacity will be provided through mobile facilities from September 2023 at Camborne and Redruth Community Hospital.
This announcement is part of the wider plan the government has to invest £2.3 billion in creating new up to 160 CDCs across the country to help tackle the COVID-19 backlog and continues to demonstrate that the people’s priorities are the government’s priorities.
Welcoming the announcement, Prospecitve Parliamentary Candidate and Redruth Cornwall Councillor, Connor Donnothorne said:
“I welcome this significant investment to provide a new diagnostic centre in our part of Cornwall. This will help deliver almost 75,000 tests and scans each year.
“I'm standing to be the local MP to help bring down NHS waiting lists and allow people to have better access to healthcare closer to their homes. I want to thank Government for listening to our concerns and delivering this investment to improve local NHS facilities.
Investing in our local NHS to reduce waiting lists is one of my key priorities and, if elected, I want to see more funding for the NHS in Cornwall so people can have access to the best standard of care possible.”