Health centre plans aim to ease pressure at hospital
The new centre should ease pressure at Hereford County Hospital if plans are approved, an NHS trust said
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A new health centre will be able to carry out scans on patients for life-threatening diseases, an NHS trust has said
Plans have been submitted for the new diagnostics centre in Hereford
If approved, the facility would relieve pressure on Hereford County Hospital, according to Wye Valley NHS Trust
A decision will be made on the plans by Herefordshire Council in the future
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Patients will be able to get scans to check for life-threatening diseases at a new health centre if plans are approved, the NHS has said.
A new diagnostic centre has been proposed off Holmer Road in Hereford by Wye Valley NHS Trust.
The building would be equipped to carry out MRI and CT scans under the plans.
The centre would be "critical" in easing pressure on the diagnostics department at Hereford County Hospital, the trust said in its application.
The two-storey building would have a car park alongside it and the site had the potential to be expanded in the future, the trust added.
Alternative sites in former shops in the centre of Hereford had been dismissed, the application said, due to how much it would cost to refit them to house medical equipment.
Herefordshire Council is to make a decision on the plans in the future.
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