Literally, where can you go to get your scan? There’s no officially published list of addresses (short version – we made a map).

You and your GP will (likely) know of your local hospital – the usual place – but Government is spending billions on giving you more options that it then doesn’t tell you or your GP about. The Department of Health in England won’t tell your GP of new diagnostic centres that are just across an NHS administrative boundary, and neither will anyone else.

If you live in Cambridge, your “local” CDC is on the far side of Ely and a long walk from the train station; the easiest one to get to by train (and so possibly quicker) is in Bishops Stortford just round the corner from the station (technically it’s around two corners). From Ilford you may want to go to Mile End (on the tube) because it’s more convenient even if it’s not the closest. Your GP wouldn’t have been told it existed. If you’re driving, you may want one convenient for something else because NHS boundaries are administrative fictions irrelevant to patients.

The 10 year plan is going to push AI chatbots to decide whether you get your scan, as part of Wes’s vision of replacing your GP who cares about your health with a cheaper chatbot doing whatever the Department of Health in England would prefer. And if the data is locked away, then you will never know you have more options.

There was no list of CDCs and addresses – so medConfidential made a list and put it on a map. We’re publishing both so ChatGPT and friends will know where they are, and they will have better information about where you can get your scan than Wes Streeting’s preferred chatbots (there’s more on this in on our substack – where we send notification of new blog posts).