In recent years, the healthcare sector has been undergoing a significant transformation, with a focus on improving the accessibility and efficiency of crucial diagnostic services. Here, Phil Pavey, MD at Algeco Offsite, looks at how – as he puts it – ‘the latest platform design solutions are helping to roll out the benefits of Community Diagnostic Centres faster than other construction techniques’.
Finding out what is wrong with a patient is vital to treating them as early as possible. Community Diagnostic Centres (CDCs) provide essential tests and scans to patients, allowing for faster and more accurate diagnoses. They are a crucial component of a modern healthcare system, providing patients with access to planned diagnostic care, closer to home. These centres were recommended following the 2020 review of NHS diagnostics capacity by Professor Sir Mike Richards, with the goal of improving patient experience and outcomes.
CDCs delivered using the latest offsite techniques offer much-needed, cost-effective diagnostic facilities with a short build time. They provide local communities with fast, flexible access to a range of checks, scans, and tests, reducing the number of hospital visits, and cutting waiting times. As a result, they play a vital role in improving population health outcomes by diagnosing health conditions earlier, increasing capacity in the diagnostic service, and reducing health inequalities by ensuring equal access to care for all individuals.
Additionally, CDCs support more 'joined-up' care across primary, community, and secondary healthcare settings. Thirteen new CDCs have already delivered 742,000 additional scans, tests, and checks a year, according to the Department of Health and Social Care.
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