Patients are now being offered a wide range of health services at a new NHS Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) at Armley Moor Health Centre.
The CDC, operated by Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, offers tests including ultrasounds, ECGs, blood tests, blood pressure checks, sleep studies and spirometry testing.
This new centre means local people don’t have to travel into the city’s larger hospitals for these tests.
Professor Phil Wood, Chief Executive at Leeds Teaching Hospitals, said: “I was delighted to visit Armley Community Diagnostic Centre and meet the committed and caring team working there. It was really interesting to hear about the impact this new centre is already having in its first few months.
“Our CDCs play a key role in providing fairer access to healthcare services and bringing care closer to home for patients, while also reducing the pressure on our larger hospitals.”
More than 4,150 tests have been carried out at Armley CDC since it opened at the end of September.
Rhina Pagarigan, Junior Sister at Armley CDC, said: “Patients have told us they are pleased to be able to get their health tests closer to home, so they don’t have to travel so far to our major hospitals.
The centre opened late last year and is one of three CDCs in Leeds, joining Seacroft and Beeston. So far over 78,674 tests have been delivered across the three CDCs, with an aim of delivering over 107,000 per year once fully operational.
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