Patients needing diagnostic tests using CT and MRI scans will be able to go to West Swindon Medical Centre if a new plan put forward is approved by Swindon Borough Council.

The Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has put in a proposal to site an endoscopy suite, which would be used to carry out the sans, at the centre in Whitehill Way.

The machinery used for the scan will be housed in mobile trailers at the centre

The application says the suite and trailers are part of the Community Diagnostic Centre announced for the medical centre last year.

It adds: “The proposed Endoscopy Community Diagnostics Facility building, and creation of concrete pads for siting of mobile trailers for conducting MRI  and CT scans, would expand on, and compliment, the existing NHS patient facilities housed within the existing West Swindon Health Centre building at the site.”

To power the machinery a new electricity substation is proposed on the site and a new gas bottle store at the ear of the health centre.

Some parking will be lost to allow the new centre to be built.

The hospital’s application says: “It is proposed that existing staff parking bays, displaced by the proposals, are re-provided for ‘off-site’. It is proposed that the existing number of patient/visitor accessible parking bays is retained."

Vehicle access will not be changed and ambulances will still have a special area set aside for them at the doors.

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