Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many available CT scanners there are in NHS (a) hospitals, (b) Community Diagnostic Centres, (c) Targeted Lung Health Check sites and (d) all NHS settings per million of population.

Data collected via the National Imaging Data Collection shows that in 2021/2022 there were 581 computerised tomography (CT) scanners in National Health Service hospital settings. Within Community Diagnostic Centres, there are currently 78 CT scanners. 42 Targeted Lung Health Check sites have access to at least one CT scanner, 33 of which are mobile scanners and 10 are fixed. Not all Targeted Lung Health Check sites use 100% of capacity from a single scanner, and some mobile scanners may be shared between more than one site. We do not hold data on the number of CT scanners per million of population.