Improving Mansfield's Health & Wellbeing
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Building a new £20m Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) to cut waiting lists and deliver better outcomes
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Secured £8.2m of Towns Fund money to build a new Leisure Hub in Warsop
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Delivered £47,000 in new funding into grassroots sport to support our most disadvantaged communities
Government has invested hundreds of billions of pounds in protecting incomes and employment over the last few years, and now we are prioritising people's health and wellbeing as well as our economy. Our economy is growing, we're out of a 'technical recession' as a result of Covid measures and the war in Ukraine, and unemployment is continuing to stay low.
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Mansfield will soon have a new Community Diagnostic Centre - which will be built and up and running in 2025, spades go into the ground in the summer. This will not only reduce waiting lists but it will employ the latest state of the art technology to deliver MRI scans, CT scans, ultrasound scans, cardiology, X-rays, blood tests and respiratory examinations. Annually, this will deliver an additional 97,000 appointments to help patients get the checks they need as soon as possible, with quicker and easier access to treatment if a diagnosis is made.
Until then, Mansfield's Community Hospital is building on the recent success of the Lung Cancer Screening programme in the early diagnosis of over 50,000 people. And is already delivering 16,000 more appointments a year through the new Community Diagnostic Centre investment.
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Through our £12m Towns Fund we've built a new Leisure Hub in Warsop - This is a brand new facility focussed on Health and Wellbeing offering a swimming pool, changing village, fitness suite, community and office spaces, a multi-purpose dividable hall, cafe and reception area. Opening this June, it's an amazing new facility that will be used by people across our town to improve their wellbeing.
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My longstanding campaign to secure new funding for grassroots sport in Mansfield has led to over £47,000 of investment being allocated to local clubs across the town. For Debdale Park, Clipstone Miners Welfare, Forest Town Arena, Berry Hill United and Woodhouse Colts JFC this investment has funded new goalposts, fencing, maintenance equipment and more.
Since 2021 this historic investment from Government has helped deliver new facilities or improvements at almost 2,400 sites across the UK, getting more than 120,000 people active.
