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Community Diagnostic Centres

Asked by Melanie OnnLabourDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 24 June 2026UIN 11677

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate has been made of the percentage of appointments made in Community Diagnostic Centres; and if he will publish them.

Answered by Karin Smyth

The DM01 Diagnostics Waiting Times and Activity dataset is a monthly National Health Service statistical return that tracks waiting times and completed procedures for 15 key diagnostic tests across England.

Data for all settings is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/diagnostics-waiting-times-and-activity/monthly-diagnostics-waiting-times-and-activity/

Data for community diagnostic centres (CDCs) specifically is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/diagnostics-waiting-times-and-activity/CDC-Management-Information/

CDC data is management information and so subject to less validation than official statistics.

The estimated percentage of non-emergency DM01 elective tests carried in CDCs for 2025/26 was 17.7%.

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