University Hospitals Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust manages three Community Diagnostics Centres (sometimes known as CDC's). These are based at Crosslands, Heysham and Westmorland. Collectively they have provided an additional
54,199 tests to patients since opening in July 2021 for Westmorland and April 2023 for Crosslands and Heysham.
The CDCs have been set up to enable us to offer thousands more diagnostic tests and scans, helping to cut waiting lists and support earlier diagnosis.
The centres offer a range of diagnostic tests in one, convenient location, helping to cut the time and expense to patients of attending lots of different appointments.
The new centres add to the amount of diagnostic tests available making it quicker and easier for patients to access potentially life-saving tests for a wide range of conditions.
Community diagnostic centres aim to:
- Improve the health of people in the local area, by giving people faster diagnosis and treatment of disease if they need it
- Increase the number of tests and scans available locally
- To make the best and most effective use of the NHS’s resources
- To reduce health inequalities – unwarranted differences in the care people receive
- To deliver a better, more personalised experience for patients
- Improve joined-up working between primary care (eg, GPs), hospitals and community care
Crosslands
- MRI
- Ambulatory BP (planned)
- Electrocardiogram Holter Monitoring (planned)
- Fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) (planned)
- Phlebotomy (planned)
- POCT anticoagulant change of dose (planned)
- POCT capillary blood gas assessment (planned)
- POCT Pro-BNP (planned)
- Pulse-oximetr (planned)
- Sleep studies (planned)
- Spirometry and bronchodilator reversibility (BDR) (planned)
Heysham
- NOUS
- Plain film X-ray
- Ambulatory BP
- B-Type Natriuretic Peptide (BNP)
- Capillary Blood Gas Analysis
- D Dimer
- Electrocardiogram Holter Monitoring
- Fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO)
- Home BP
- INRstar
- Phlebotomy
- Pulse-oximetry
- Sleep studies
- Spirometry and bronchodilator reversibility (BDR)
Westmorland
- CT
- MRI
- NOUS
- Plain film X-ray
- Ambulatory BP
- CO Monitoring
- ECG
- Echo
- Electrocardiogram Holter Monitoring
- Field test – 6 minute walk
- Fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO)
- Full lung function
- Phlebotomy
- POCT anticoagulant change of dose
- POCT capillary blood gas assessment
- POCT Pro-BNP
- POCT urinalysis
- Pulse-oximetry
- Sleep studies
- Spiro
You will need to be referred for an appointment at a community diagnostic centre by your GP, or in some cases your hospital clinician may suggest attending one for further tests.
If you are referred for a test or scan it is really important that you attend so that you can get any treatment, if you need it, as soon as possible.
If you can’t attend, please get in touch with the service that offered you the appointment to let them know as soon as possible. They can schedule another if you still need it and offer your original appointment to another patient.