The success of the facilities in Skegness and Lincoln has also helped Lincolnshire’s CDC programme to reach another important milestone – completing more than a quarter of a million diagnostic tests overall since the programme was launched in Lincolnshire in 2022.
Skegness CDC opened on the site of the former Kwiksave supermarket on Old Wainfleet Road in November 2024, while Lincoln CDC, on Beevor Street, welcomed its first patients in December 2024.
Daren Fradgley, Deputy Chief Executive and Chief Integration Officer at Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group, said: “To have delivered more than 105,000 tests to patients at Skegness and Lincoln CDCs combined has been a fantastic achievement for our first year.
“Thanks to our dedicated clinical and wider programme teams we’ve been able to deliver services differently within our local communities, offering more choice and more convenient ways to access care.
“Patients and visitors have told us how much they like these facilities, and particularly for Skegness where we have brought services to the town for the first time, people can access the care they need much closer to home.”
It’s not just the patients who have been impressed with the two new facilities, with judges of the Building Better Healthcare Awards 2025 also naming the duel-build project as ‘gold’ winner of the CDC of the Year category last month.
At Skegness, achievements have included developing a chemotherapy service, installing a dental X-ray and introducing a number of new clinics, all offering faster access to care, such as the Rapid Access Angina Service, asthma clinics for adults and children, and women’s health clinics supporting women who may experiencing unexpected bleeding.
In Lincoln, the team has had significant praise in supporting patients who are anxious and in need of additional support to have MRI scans, and has worked in partnership with other NHS organisations to offer dementia clinics where patients can have all the tests and scans they need in one visit rather than multiple trips, and children’s blood clinics to prevent travel to large hospital sites both in and outside of the county.
Across all of Lincolnshire’s CDCs, including Grantham, hospital teams are also working in partnership with local GP services to offer physiological testing services, such as ECGs, blood tests, spirometry and FeNo testing.
Mr Fradgley added: “We now look forward to the year ahead, where we have exciting plans to continue to develop the clinical services available across all of our community diagnostic centres in Skegness, Lincoln and Grantham.
“Further building work has started on an extension to the facilities at Lincoln, and we will also be continuing with our plans to open a fourth CDC in Boston, which, subject to final approvals, we hope will open in 2027.”
For more information about our CDCs in Grantham, Lincoln and Skegness and the services available, visit the United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust website.