{"id":168183,"date":"2025-09-29T13:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/168183\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T13:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:27:07","slug":"nhs-plans-second-diagnostics-centre-in-plymouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/168183\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS plans second diagnostics centre in Plymouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sarah Brampton, the trust&#8217;s deputy chief executive, said in her report to the board the vision was to build a &#8220;health village&#8221; in the city centre which would increase the capacity of the diagnostic centre and house a neighbourhood health hub to address health inequalities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said it could include dental services, sexual health services, sports and exercise medicine, point of care testing, private patients and research and development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are currently talking to partners such as GPs, Plymouth City Council, education sector providers and others and working on drawing up detailed plans,&#8221; she said, adding it could be a &#8220;game-changer&#8221; for healthcare in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sarah Brampton, the trust&#8217;s deputy chief executive, said in her report to the board the vision was to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-168183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}