Bridgwater Diagnostic Centre could open in March 2026<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n It follows the opening of a community diagnostic centre in Taunton in 2020, as well as the development of a diagnostic centre next to Yeovil Hospital, which is expected to open later this year.\n<\/p>\n
\n Plans submitted to Somerset Council outline that opening of the new centre is earmarked for 30 March, 2026.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n The Bridgwater diagnostic centre will run a range of services from two CT scanners, two MRI scanners, four outpatient rooms and two echocardiography\/ultrasound rooms.\n<\/p>\n
\n It will enable the centre to provide the Bridgwater population with routine and specialist cardiac and cancer scanning, alongside clinics.\n<\/p>\n
\n David Craig, Somerset NHS Foundation Trust\u2019s programme director for the project, said: \u201cThis development is fantastic news for people in Bridgwater and will improve access to vital healthcare scans, as well as help us to reduce our waiting times.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe new centre supports one of the three shifts of the NHS 10 Year Plan, which involves transferring care from hospitals into local communities.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cRunning across seven days a week, it will improve access for people in Bridgwater and the surrounding areas to specialist care, with the centre expected to provide almost 25,000 additional scans every year.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe have this month applied for planning permission for the new centre, and if approved, the new facility is likely to open in Summer 2026. It will be developed by Ergea, a partner of our trust that provides imaging services.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Gavin Brooksbank, head of implementation at Ergea, added: \u201cWe are delighted to be working with Somerset NHS Foundation Trust to deliver this state-of-the-art centre.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cErgea is our managed equipment service provider and will be working alongside the trust to deliver a centre with the latest technology that the local population would be proud of.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n While the centre is in development, Somerset NHS Foundation Trust has been working closely with Agito Medical to provide temporary MRI and CT scanners at Bridgwater Community Hospital, giving local people access to specialist scanning at the earliest opportunity, and to support the NHS\u2019 plan to move more care into local neighbourhoods.\n<\/p>\n
\n Dan Keeble, commercial director of Agito Medical, added: \u201cWe have built a strong partnership with Somerset NHS Foundation Trust and together have set up an MRI and CT service that has so far seen 5,760 patients.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new \u00a317.8 million state-of-the-art centre will provide a range of specialist diagnostic and outpatient services to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-293427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114919877093689635","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}