Over the past two years, Morgan Sindall Construction has delivered seven Community Diagnostic Centres across the UK. Here, healthcare framework director Jonathan Stead discusses the technical, operational, and strategic lessons that that the company has learned when it comes to managing risk, the order and timings of construction, and stakeholder engagement, and how this is shaping Morgan Sindall Construction’s approach to a new generation of CDCs.
Community Diagnostic Centres (CDCs) were rolled out as an urgent response to a completely unforeseen challenge. In the wake of the pandemic, diagnostic backlogs were growing, hospital estates were under pressure, and the NHS required rapid, decentralised capacity to restore services and improve early detection rates.
Several years on now, and with 14.7 million diagnostic tests delivered nationally through CDCs, the conversation is still evolving. The priority question is no longer how quickly diagnostic infrastructure can be delivered, but how intelligently can it be done and what wider benefits can this work provide.
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