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Community diagnostic centres

The community diagnostic centres (CDC) will ensure that the clinical teams in our network have access to the imaging infrastructure they need to meet the increasing demands for imaging services.

The CDC programme will establish CDCs in north west London as suggested in Professor Mike Richards’ report: Diagnostics; Recovery and Renewal’ (2020).

The triple aim of the programme is to increase imaging capacity, improve population health and address health inequalities. As such, the programme is focussed on two of our most deprived areas:

  1. Neasden, Stonebridge, Harlesden, North Hammersmith & Fulham, North Kensington, Queen’s Park and Church Street; and
  2. Hanwell, Southall, Greenford.

The new centres are planned to open in the latter half of 2023.

The Wembley CDC will Wembley Centre for Health and Care, 116 Chaplin Rd, Wembley HA0 4UZ. It will provide the following services:

  • CT
  • MRI

The CDC will be situated on the Ealing Hospital site but run separately from the main hospital. It will provide the following services:

  • CT
  • MR
  • Ultrasound
  • Plain film X-Ray
  • Dexa (bone density)
  • Echocardiogram
  • ECG
  • Lung function, Spirometry, Oximetry & FeNo
  • Phlebotomy
  • Point of Care Testing

The Willesden CDC will be located at the Willesden Centre for Health and Care, Robson Ave, London NW10 3RY. It will provide the following services:

  • Ultrasound
  • Plain film X-Ray
  • Echocardiogram
  • ECG
  • Lung function, Spirometry, Oximetry & FeNo
  • Phlebotomy

  • Early adopter interim CDCs funded and enabling works completed on the Ealing and West Middlesex sites, with 5 Imperial funded MRI machines (NHSE funding of £1.81m in 21/22 and £1.04m in 22/23) ​
  • Additional capacity during the pandemic (portable US machines, mobile CT and MRI facilities, additional CT at CXH) and funding for POCT devices, compressed sense MRI upgrades

  • Go-live of the early adopter MRI Hubs at Ealing & West Middlesex hospitals – delivering additional MRI capacity on behalf of the wider network​

  • CDCs – NWL CDC strategy and CDC business cases approved
  • Over-performance against plan for MRI Hubs – 18,191 scans delivered against an initial target of 13,769 scans, attracting full revenue funding of  £7.6m to cover all costs for the year.
  • NHSEI National approval of 23/24 CDC activity and revenue plans.
  • Release of capacity within existing hospital based diagnostic services, enabling increased hospital capacity to support the provision of more urgent and cancer diagnostics

  • Go live for CDCs – Willesden (from June 2023), Wembley (from November / December 2023), and Ealing from (December 2023 – April 2024)
  • Exploring pathway development – opportunity to redesign and embed pathways within the CDCs
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