Funding has been secured for new Community Diagnostic Centres (CDCs) to be built in Scunthorpe and Grimsby town centres.
The £19.4 million centre in Scunthorpe is set to begin offering initial services to patients from December, with the £10 million build in Grimsby opening its doors in early 2025.
Both have been designed with input from our clinical teams – both from our hospitals and community health providers – to ensure we create the right space to meet your needs, with sufficient capacity to house multiple diagnostic services.
What are Community Diagnostic Centres?
CDCs are a one-stop-shop for health checks, scans, and tests, providing you with access to a range of diagnostic tests closer to home, reducing the need to come into hospital and reducing waiting times.
Staffed by expert clinicians, each will give us the ability to carry out 146,000 additional diagnostic tests every year, helping us to detect serious conditions such as cancer, heart disease, and respiratory conditions.
If your GP believes you need a diagnostic test, they will be able to refer you and we will be in touch to arrange a mutually convenient appointment. If you require multiple tests, you may be able to book to have them all done on the same day.
We don’t just serve our communities – we’re part of them too and we want to see our high streets busy and thriving once more. That’s why we have purposefully chosen to build these centres in our town centres, encouraging more people to visit, increasing footfall and benefitting local businesses.
By moving these services away from our hospital sites, we will also improve services there too. Our hospital clinicians will have more time to deal with patients requiring acute care and, as an added bonus, there will be less demand for parking too.
Scunthorpe CDC
Located in Lindum Street, in Scunthorpe town centre, the CDC is easily accessible by car and public transport. There is ample parking available in the nearby multi-story car park and both the railway station and bus station are close by.
Appointments are available from 8am to 8pm, seven days a week and for cardio-respiratory testing appointments are available between 8am and 6pm, Monday to Friday.
Initially, we will be offering the following services:
- Cardio-respiratory tests
- Phlebotomy (blood tests)
- X Ray
- Non-obstetric ultrasound.
From spring next year we will also be able to offer CT and MRI scans.
Getting here
Scunthorpe Community Diagnostic Centre
Grimsby CDC
Located in the heart of Grimsby’s Freshney Place Shopping Centre, the CDC is easily accessible by car and public transport. There is ample parking available in the multi-story car park within the shopping centre and both the railway station and bus station are close by.
We will be offering appointments between 8am and 8pm, seven days a week. For cardiology, appointments are available between 8am and 6pm, Monday to Friday.
Initially we will be offering the following services:
- Phlebotomy (blood testing)
- X Ray and non-obstetric ultrasound
- 24 hour Cardiology monitoring
Further Cardiology services – including ECGs, Echocardiographs and ambulatory monitoring – will be coming online shortly after the initial go live.
Once fully operational we will also be offering Ophthalmology appointments.
