Delivering community diagnostic centres: lessons learned from the early schemes and where next?

The latest NHS priorities and operational planning guidance highlights three key tasks for the year ahead - recovering core services, delivering the ambitions in the NHS Long Term Plan, and transforming the NHS for the future. Increasing diagnostics capacity, across a broad range of specialisms is a crucial element of these tasks, likewise if the NHS is to achieve its stated aim of implementing ‘one of the most comprehensive strategies on early diagnosis anywhere in the world’. 

As we reach the second year of the government’s three-year investment plan for community diagnostic centres (CDCs), this online event will consider whether they are being progressed quickly or effectively enough to support these aims. If not, why not, what are the stumbling blocks and how do we overcome these? We will discuss our experience of working on a number of flagship CDC projects to date and will hear from some of the key players involved in developing these from across both the NHS and private sector. The round table format session will consider all aspects of CDC development from a range of perspectives including how they are funded, estates concerns including sustainability and green planning, and the structuring of the commercial arrangements between the parties involved.      

Led by Hill Dickinson partners Rob McGough and Andrea Proudlock, we are delighted to be joined by a round table panel of speakers with first-hand experience of progressing CDCs from both the public and private healthcare sector perspective:

- Barney Schofield, Director of Planning and Delivery, Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust 

- Matt Gilson, Senior Director, CBRE

- Darren Ramen, UK Head of Legal, Alliance Medical

- Sarka Oldham, Business Development and Partnerships Director, Vanguard Healthcare Solutions