Cancer: Radiotherapy

(asked on 12th January 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting times for radiotherapy treatment in (a) York and (b) the UK.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 31st January 2023

Since 2016, around £162 million of central investment has been made to replace or upgrade around 100 radiotherapy machines. This investment was in addition to the investment that NHS Trusts make to maintain their infrastructure.

The Leeds radiotherapy centre and the radiotherapy centre at Castle Hill, near Hull, along with Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, feed into the Yorkshire and Humber Radiotherapy Operational Delivery Network which has supported initiatives to address waiting times.

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