{"value":{"id":1674331,"askingMemberId":4754,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2023-11-30T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2023-12-04T00:00:00","uin":"4734","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July 2023 to Question 191385 on Liver Diseases: Screening, which 10 community diagnostic centres provide FibroScans; and whether she plans to increase the number of such centres that will provide transient elastography for earlier detection of liver disease in 2024.","answeringBodyId":17,"answeringBodyName":"Department of Health and Social Care","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4044,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2024-01-23T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>There are currently plans for 12 community diagnostic centres (CDCs) to offer FibroScan testing, of which six are operational. A further six CDCs plan to offer this service by the end of March 2024.</p><p>The following CDCs are currently offering FibroScan testing:</p><p>- Bexhill CDC in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex;</p><p>- New QEII Hospital CDC in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire;</p><p>- St Helen’s CDC in St Helen’s, Merseyside;</p><p>- Woking CDC in Woking, Surrey;</p><p>- Hereford City CDC in Hereford; and</p><p>- Andover CDC in Andover, Hampshire.</p><p> </p><p>The following CDCs plan to offer this service by the end of March 2024:</p><p>- Bolton CDC in Bolton, Lancashire;</p><p>- Ely CDC in Ely, Cambridgeshire;</p><p>- Wisbech CDC in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire;</p><p>- Gloucestershire Quayside CDC in Gloucester;</p><p>- Northampton CDC in Northampton; and</p><p>- Queen Mary’s Hospital Roehampton CDC in Roehampton, Surrey.</p><p> </p><p>We do not hold information on how much of the £2.3 billion allocated for diagnostics in the Spending Review 2021 has been spent on expanding the FibroScan rollout in CDCs, as this information is not routinely collected.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Liver Diseases: Screening","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1674331","method":"GET"}]}