Three new community clinics will provide an extra 65,000 appointments to detect cancer and heart disease.
Three new diagnostic centres are to start providing services away from the traditional large hospital setting.
It is hoped the new community sites will provide greater convenience for local patients living in Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire.The Sulis Hospital in Bath began providing diagnostic services in the spring, while two further facilities, at the West Swindon Health Centre and Salisbury Central Health Clinic, are expected to open before the end of the year.
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