Source · Select Committees · Public Accounts Committee
Recommendation 16
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Department confirmed significant funding and operational numbers for diagnostic and surgical centres.
Conclusion
The Department wrote to us on 10 September 2025 to confirm that it has drawn down £2.2 billion of capital funding for diagnostic transformation and £1.04 billion for surgical hubs. It also confirmed that 122 surgical hubs were operational in England.32 The Department had previously written to tell us that 169 Community Diagnostic Centres (CDCs) were active, with one further CDC that had been active but was temporarily offline while it moved to a permanent location. Of those 170, 98 CDCs were reported by the Department as operating 12 hours a day, seven days a week.33