Wes Streeting Joins Mary Creagh at new Diagnostic Centre

Mary Creagh, MP for Coventry East, with Wes Streeting MP, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, outside the site of the new Community Diagnostic Centre at the City of Coventry Health Centre.

The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Wes Streeting MP, joined Mary Creagh, MP for Coventry East and Minister for Nature, to see the location of a new community diagnostic centre for the city.

The community diagnostic centre will be opening on the Stoney Stanton Road this autumn. It will treat 90,000 patients annually and administer 75,000 tests. The centre will be equipped with cutting-edge MRI,  ultrasound and CT scanners to provide patients with state-of-the-art care. 

This £14 million investment in Coventry is part of an extra £26 billion a year the Labour government is investing in the NHS. This impact of this boost is already being seen. The NHS carried out a record 29 million tests and scans in England last year.

Mary Creagh, Labour MP for Coventry East said:

“I’m thrilled to welcome Wes to Coventry today ahead of the opening of our new community diagnostic centre in Coventry later this year. People in Coventry want a modern service that works around their lives.

I’m pleased our Labour Government is delivering the much needed improvements after a decade of neglect under the previous government. The new community diagnostic centre on Stoney Stanton Road is an wonderful example of the change that we are delivering.”

Wes Streeting, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care said:

“It’s great to be here in Coventry to see site of the city’s new community diagnostic centre. It will make a real difference to people’s lives when it opens later this year.

Thanks to this government’s record investment in the NHS’s recovery and modernisation, the NHS delivered a record number of tests and scans last year. But there’s still a long way to go before we’re catching diseases in time.

These new Community Diagnostic Centres are an important part of the biggest expansion in NHS diagnostics in a generation - continuing the progress we’re making and helping save lives.”