Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has a limit on the distance it would require someone to travel to receive (a) radiotherapy and (b) other types of cancer treatment.

There is no limit on the distance that would be required for someone to receive cancer treatment. The travel a patient needs to undertake is dependent on the types of treatment needed on an individual case basis. Specialised services are not available in every local hospital because they have to be delivered by specialist teams of health professionals who have the necessary skills, experience and access to equipment and medicines.

Patient-specific requirements are also based on what each individual could manage and cope with and would be discussed between the patient and clinician.