United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has completed a £4m extension to its CDC.
Lincoln Community Diagnostic Centre has built an additional nine consultation rooms, a treatment room and a plaster room to help Lincolnshire’s NHS teams to deliver a wider range of clinics.
The facility is located on Beevor Street, within Lincoln Science and Innovation Park, just off Tritton Road.
This new extension will include some outpatient orthopaedic clinics previously based at Lincoln County Hospital, as well as additional clinics for physiotherapy, dermatology, neurophysiology and stroke.
Professor Karen Dunderdale, Chief Executive of Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group, said: "By moving some clinics out of Lincoln County Hospital, we’ve also been able to support improvements to urgent and emergency care services.
“The freed-up space means our Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) service within the hospital has been able to grow, supporting more people to access emergency care quickly and without the need for a hospital admission.”
The principal contractor for the extension project was announced in January this year as MTX. The construction firm was the original contractor on the project, which was completed in late 2024.
From a construction point of view, beyond the actual building, the extension included the creation of a linkway between the two buildings, additional drainage and groundworks for the site.
MTX delivered the Lincoln CDC concurrently with a second CDC in Skegness, utilising MMC.
The freed-up space means our Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) service within the hospital has been able to grow
A CDC normally provides a broad range of diagnostic services, such as X-rays, blood tests and CT and MRI scans, as part of a patient’s ongoing planned care, away from busy acute hospitals. Lincolnshire’s CDCs are also home to a host of other clinics, including those supporting patients with dementia, angina and women’s health conditions.
Some outpatient orthopaedic clinics have already started to take place at the CDC.
Staff in one of the orthopaedic clinics. From left – Healthcare Support Worker Susan Dobbs, Orthopaedic Consultant Vikas Sharma, Clinical Service Manager Carly Hicks and Staff Nurse Steven Meadows
Mark Rowsell, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and Clinical Lead for Orthopaedics at the Trust, said: “The extension at Lincoln CDC has allowed us to develop fantastic purpose-built facilities for our orthopaedic patients. Being co-located with the state-of-the-art diagnostic facilities, patients can access all the services they need conveniently as part of their ongoing orthopaedic care in the same location.
“We hope access has also been made easier by being away from the busy Lincoln County Hospital site, with free parking available close to the building and public transport links also close by.”
Linda Dalby (75), from Gainsborough, is preparing for surgery for a knee replacement and was among the first orthopaedic patients to be seen in clinics at Lincoln CDC.
She said: “I thought it was absolutely wonderful. Everything was so streamlined and I was really impressed. It was a beautiful building. I think having clinics in the community is the way forward.”
Linda added: “I was talking to another patient while I was in the X-ray department and she was saying the same thing. The Community Diagnostic Centre is such an asset.”
The building extension was completed in approximately five months and connects to the existing CDC building via a shared entrance. The new clinic area includes its own dedicated reception and waiting area, and a second waiting space for children.
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