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Community Diagnostic Centres

In 2020, Professor Sir Mike Richards review of NHS diagnostics capacity (NHS Long Term Plan), recommended the need for a new diagnostics model, where more facilities are created in free standing locations away from main hospital sites.

 

Diagnostic Healthcare is well placed to continue supporting the NHS in the delivery of this programme, through decades of experience of specialist community diagnostics delivery.

Community Diagnostic Centres

Why partner with Diagnostic Healthcare to deliver your CDC programme?

Diagnostic Healthcare has been operating community diagnostic clinics for over 10 years, establishing five independent community hubs for the referral of both primary and secondary care patients. This has resulted in early CDC adopters working with us to deliver different elements of the service.

We believe in a partnering approach, with strong, mutually beneficial relationships established at the outset and open communication throughout all stages of the CDC programme.

A partnering approach

Facilities

We have a strong track record of ‘design and build’ CDCs to suit operational and commercial requirements for each customer. A partnership with our ‘design and build’ healthcare specialists provides a full ‘turnkey’ solution, in line with the required specification and timescale.

Workforce

With a large, directly employed workforce throughout the UK, we can rapidly support existing or new CDCs with an expansion of the imaging workforce.  We work closely with our NHS customers, offering wide opportunities for our staff to be rotated between different modalities and departments, which creates a strong partnership and increases standards of service delivery.

Managed pathways

From the initial referral through to patient booking and management, delivery of the scan and reporting of the results, our in house Patient Services team deliver a full, end to end service that provides flexibility, professionalism and responsiveness.

Equipment

As a vendor-neutral company, we can offer a range of equipment from the leading manufacturers, including Siemens, GE, Philips and Canon.  Our national fleet of mobile and relocatable scanners can offer immediate capacity, with the ability to work together to flex capacity up and down as required throughout the entire project.

IT

Our services offer full, seamless integration to NHS systems, always with the highest standards in data security.

Diagnostic Healthcare have fully completed the Data Security and Protection Tool kit requirements and hold Cyber Essentials Plus accreditation.

Access to capital

Unconstrained by NHS restrictions, we have access to capital investment to support the demand for imaging services across the NHS.

How can the NHS commission the services of Diagnostic Healthcare?

Diagnostic Healthcare can be commissioned by direct award via multiple NHS accredited frameworks. To access the appropriate framework or for further information:

Email: contracts@dhc.uk.com

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