Work starts on new diagnostic centre at King's Lynn's Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Director of strategy Carly West-Burnham explains how people can benefit from the new diagnostics centre at King's Lynn's QEH. Video: Lucy Carter

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00:00 We're standing here on the site of the Diagnostic Centre which is being built on the QEH. It

00:15 will bring to the hospital a really state of the art development which will have some

00:20 scanning facilities in it. So diagnostics we know are a really key part of our patients

00:25 pathway as part of their treatment. So within the Diagnostic Centre we will have additional

00:32 CT, MRI, X-ray and ultrasound. So it will be really helpful for all our patients in

00:37 terms of getting those diagnoses as part of their treatment.

00:46 The centre itself will be state of the art as you would expect and it has been quite

00:50 a long time to get to this point but it is a collaborative programme that we are working

00:55 on across Northumberland Waverley. So whilst this is the QEH Diagnostic Centre there are

01:00 also diagnostic centres being built at both James Patrick Hospital and the Northumberland

01:04 Orange Hospital. So a really exciting opportunity for us to work together to create some additional

01:10 capacity so it will mean more capacity for our patients.