Planning permission has been granted for the new Plymouth Community Diagnostic Centre (PCDC) to be built in the West End.
University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust (UHP) submitted plans last year following a public consultation in November. It is hoped the new facility will reduce health inequities for those living in areas of greater deprivation in Plymouth and improve overall health outcomes.
Plymouth City Council has now approved the plans for the new centre which will offer over 91,600 imaging tests in its location at Colin Campbell Court.
Stuart Windsor, Future Hospitals Director at University Hospitals Plymouth said: “We are pleased to have received planning permission for the new diagnostic centre. Groundworks are due to commence in April and we are working on the detailed designs to bring a full suite of diagnostic testing to the West End of the city. This will give people living in or near the city centre access to these tests closer to their homes”.
Patients will be able to visit the PCDC for tests such as MRI, CT, X-ray, lung cancer screening, ultrasound, audiology, ECG, point of care testing, and blood tests.
It will also offer physiological measurement testing such as echocardiograms, ECG and ambulatory monitoring, pacemaker checks, a full array of lung function tests, sleep studies, EEG and vascular ultrasound. More services could be added to this list in the future.
Whilst building works take place, there will continue to be a mobile scanning unit on the Colin Campbell site to enable people access these tests.
A construction partner will be appointed shortly and it is hoped that works will commence in 2024 and patients will benefit from this new facility in 2025.