Published on 25 November 2021
A new diagnostics service – including for cancer – is boosting access to care across Wirral.
Patients are benefiting from earlier diagnostic testing thanks to national investment in a new service called Clatterbridge Diagnostics.
It has been established in a way that means cancer care on the site will also be enhanced by enabling people to be diagnosed more quickly without affecting waiting times for treatment.
This is one of the first Community Diagnostic Centres in England that are being established as part of a national programme aimed at increasing diagnostic capacity.
The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre (CCC) and Wirral University Teaching Hospital (WUTH) are working in partnership to deliver the service after being awarded a share of £350m national funding to create one of the 40 new Community Diagnostic Centres planned across England.
Clatterbridge Diagnostics has been set up within CCC’s Wirral site and will offer an extra service for people referred to WUTH for tests, alongside the current diagnostics support at Arrowe Park Hospital.
The service will offer earlier access to diagnostics, reducing the time that patients wait for tests for a wide range of conditions including cancer, heart disease and lung conditions.
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