Medical Equipment: Community Diagnostic Centres
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many community diagnostic centres have spirometry equipment.
Answered by Karin Smyth
As of December 2025, community diagnostic centres (CDCs) are now delivering additional tests and checks on 170 sites across the country.
Spirometry with bronchodilator response is a minimum test requirement of all standard and large CDCs. It is therefore expected that all fully operational standard and large CDCs offer this service.
CDC programme funded diagnostic test activity is reported from management information collected monthly. Spirometry test activity is included as part of the ‘other respiratory’ category. 307,866 ‘other respiratory’ tests have been delivered between January 2025 and the end of October 2025, the latest published data. Spirometry is not recorded separately and so individual testing volumes are not held in the format requested. CDC management information, including a list of tests categorised under the ‘other respiratory’ grouping, can be found at the following link:
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