Panel: Maximising CDCs for Faster Cancer Diagnosis and Pathway Transformation

Panel: Maximising CDCs for Faster Cancer Diagnosis and Pathway Transformation

Thursday, March 13, 2025 12:15 PM to 12:55 PM · 40 min. (Europe/London)
Panel discussion

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  • The role of CDCs in accelerating cancer diagnosis and improving patient outcomes
  • Transforming cancer diagnostic pathways through CDCs and optimising their full potential beyond additional capacity
  • Enhancing efficiency with bundled pathways, patient navigation, and streamlined onward referrals
  • Emerging models of rapid cancer diagnosis alongside CDCs
  • Integrating PET-CT more effectively within evolving diagnostic frameworks

Alliance MedicalNetworking AreaAlliance Medical Limited (Alliance Medical) is Europe’s leading provider of diagnostic and molecular imaging services.  Established in 1989, we have been delivering high-quality diagnostic solutions in partnership with public and private healthcare organisations for over 30 years. We operate across 10 countries including the UK, Germany, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, and Spain, and run 9 Community Diagnostic Centres in the UK and 35 across Italy. Our 1,200+ staff currently serve over 700,000 patients across 62 facilities and 60+ mobile units, delivering scanning services to 224 locations, including 9 Community Diagnostic Centres, and over 100 NHS Trusts across the UK. We have the largest radiology workforce outside the NHS. We undertake c.800,000 scans per year, including over 100,000 PET-CT scans, and manufacture and distribute SPECT & PET radiopharmaceuticals through a network of 5 production units offering a fully integrated Radiopharmacy supply chain for molecular imaging.  We also provide X-Ray, NOUS, DEXA and Pathology services across several sites in the UK and Europe.   We have enjoyed sustainable growth based on a proven, scalable business model, exceptional service, outstanding value for money and technical excellence.    We are one of the UK’s foremost providers of MRI, CT and PET-CET services. We are a trusted partner of the NHS and hold the National PET-CT contract; we also lead the Molecular Imaging Collaborative Network and deliver NHS PET-CT services to 70% of England, with over £100m of investment over the last 10 years. We are the front-runner in Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) provision; our 35 CDCs in Italy pioneered the UK model. In 2018, we created the UK’s first, fully integrated, multi-modality Diagnostic Centre in partnership with Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust (now East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust) Turner Diagnostic Centre. We deliver a further 9 multimodality CDCs across the UK.  Some of these contracts are fully operational, whilst others are under development after contract award, with interim modular solutions to meet immediate demand: • Somerset NHS Foundation Trust work with Alliance Medical as preferred provider to run the Taunton Diagnostic Centre • Oldham Community Diagnostic Centre in partnership with Northern Care Alliance - Oldham Community Diagnostic Centre :: Northern Care Alliance    • Clacton Community Diagnostic Centre in partnership with East Sussex and Northeast Essex NHS Foundation Trust • Cannock Community Diagnostic Centre in partnership with The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust • South Tyneside Community Diagnostic Centre in partnership with South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust - First patients welcomed to new £10 million Integrated Diagnostic Centre :: South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust (stsft.nhs.uk) • Oxford Community Diagnostic Centre in partnership with Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH) and Perspectum Limited    • Alliance Medical Marylebone – Healthcare Multimodality Imaging Services Our Community Diagnostic Centres are multi-modality facilities that work across patient pathways and contain a mixture of diagnostic imaging, phlebotomy, clinical consultation, and treatment space. 

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