Over 2,000 potentially life-saving tests carried out at Hull's new CDC

THE £18M FACILITY OPENED ON ALBION STREET IN SEPTEMBER

- By LAURA CROSS

Hull Community Diagnostic Centre on Albion Street (exterior)

ALMOST two and a half thousand potentially lifesaving tests have been carried out at Hull’s new Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) in the space of just a month, the NHS Humber Health Partnership has announced.

The £18m facility opened on Albion Street in September.

Since then, a total of 2,415 tests have been conducted including MRI and ultrasound scans, blood tests, and CT scans, the latter of which are used to generate detailed images of internal organs, bones and tissue.

At the top of the performance list is the X-ray service with 990 procedures carried out to date. This accounts for more than two in every five diagnostic tests undertaken there.

Leah Stabler, CDC general manager with NHS Humber Health Partnership spoke about the fantastic news. She said: “It’s fantastic to see the CDC is already delivering what it was intended to, and that’s faster access to diagnostic tests.

“In some cases, patients seen here could otherwise have been waiting days or even weeks for these types of tests at their GP surgery or within a main hospital setting.