Construction work for Community Diagnostic Centre extension underway

How the new extension at Lincoln CDC is taking shape:

Construction work to extend the facilities available at Lincoln Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) is now well underway.

The 330sqm single-storey extension will create an additional 10 consultation rooms, a treatment room and a plaster room at the facility on Beevor Street, within the Lincoln Science and Innovation Park.

It will connect to the existing CDC building via a shared entrance, but will have its own reception and waiting area.

The patient car park will also be extended.

The original CDC building has been open to patients for just over a year, since December 2024, and hosts a wide range of NHS diagnostic services, including MRI and CT imaging, X-ray, general medical ultrasound, physiological testing services such as ECGs and blood testing, and other NHS clinics.

The £4 million extension will be used to deliver more planned care, including some elective orthopaedic clinics, which will relocate from the Outpatients department at Lincoln County Hospital. Some emergency fracture clinics will continue to be available for patients at Lincoln County Hospital.

Daren Fradgley, Deputy Chief Executive and Chief Integration Officer for Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group, said: “We have seen real success in our community diagnostic centre programme since it began in 2022, and we hope 2026 will be another exciting year of growth and improvements for our patients. This includes our expansion at Lincoln CDC, as well as progressing our plans for a new CDC in Boston.

“Our teams at Lincoln CDC delivered more than 76,000 diagnostic tests in their first year of opening and we are continually looking at how we use these fantastic facilities to make it easier for patients to access the care they need, with the development of new services and pathways within our own Group and with other health and care partners in Lincolnshire.

“By relocating some of our planned outpatient clinics to the CDC, it also allows us to use the space in Lincoln County Hospital to develop and expand our Same Day Emergency Care services, supporting people who need urgent care to be assessed and treated quicker.”

Much of the work to create the foundations for the new extension were completed at the end of 2025, following planning permission being granted in October 2025. In the coming weeks, the steel frame for the building will arrive and be craned into place.

Daren added: “We are working to keep disruption to a minimum for our colleagues and patients in the coming months, and hope the extension will be ready for use in spring 2026.”