Overview

• England now hosts around 170 CDCs sited in shopping centres, community hospitals, stadiums and university campuses to bring diagnostics closer to home.
• Since July 2024, CDCs have delivered 7.2 million tests and scans, including 1.6 million more year on year, and enabled 218,463 people to receive a cancer diagnosis or all-clear within 28 days.
• The expansion is part of a £6 billion, five-year capital investment to transform elective, diagnostic and urgent care services.
• Early site reports show Oldham CDC halved lung cancer diagnosis times to 18.8 days and Queen Victoria Hospital CDC handled five times more respiratory consultations with 92 % of patients avoiding outpatient visits.
• Charities and the Society of Radiographers warn that persistent regional testing disparities and a shortage of radiographers must be tackled to sustain consistent improvements.