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I have recently cured a central heating pipe leak in a concrete floor screed.
The internal wall adjacent is taking a long time to dry out even though there is a radiator situated on one side of it !!
Any advice(observations) would be welcomed, thanks.

It's hard to say really, It depends how long it was leaking and how badly. Try and leave doors and/or windows open as long as it's possible!

Things like this can take a long time to dry out, especially if the area was saturated.

As Gadget, said, you need a flow of air during the day.

Fans or a de-humidifier will help.

You also might find that the plaster is goosed, once it dries out.

Often when plaster gets wet and then is dried out again, salts appear on the face of it. Often the only way to fix this is to replace the plaster.

When we was taking up the kitching floor we found a water pipe what was dripping and it must of been like this for donkys years so we fixed it before we put in new liner to stop the damp rising from the floor, the floor is dry has a bone and has been for months,

it could take up to nine months mate...