Published on 28 May 2024
A new diagnostics centre has opened to enable earlier diagnosis of illnesses such as prostate cancer.
The state-of-the-art facility, run by Wirral University Teaching Hospital, has new MRI and CT scanners, alongside facilities to further enhance privacy and comfort for patients having scans.
The up-to-date software allows the MRI equipment to produce high quality scan images at a fast speed, to improve detection of conditions such as prostate cancer. As well as scanning for different types of cancers, diagnostics for a wide range of conditions will be carried out at Wirral Diagnostics Centre.
This is the second diagnostics centre to be built at the Clatterbridge site. Clatterbridge Diagnostics Centre was set up in July 2021 as a partnership between Wirral University Teaching Hospital and The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre and was one of the first diagnostics hubs set up in England to reduce NHS waiting times and increase capacity for early diagnosis. Since then, more than 100,000 patients have had tests or scans at the centre. Wirral Diagnostics Centre further expands this capability, providing detection for more complex conditions.