NHS service to move into vacant Metrocentre site
An NHS diagnostic centre is being opened in Gateshead's MetrocentreIt is expected to provide about 145,000 appointments a yearTwo health trusts plan to open a diagnostic service in a former department store at a shopping centre.
The community diagnostic centre will provide magnetic resonance imaging and respiratory and cardiac investigations. They added the 40,000 sq ft facility was designed to help the increasing number of people being referred to access screening and diagnostic tests outside a hospital setting.'Significant new footfall'
The CDC will fit in behind, filling the majority of what remains on that level and will be accessed from the first floor, the trusts said.
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