Radiotherapy

(asked on 11th September 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what facilities in the UK offer high-energy proton beam cancer therapy treatment in (a) the NHS and (b) the private sector.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 9th October 2018

In April 2012, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care announced that £250 million would be invested to build proton beam therapy facilities at The Christie Hospital in Manchester and University College London Hospital (UCLH). Contracts were signed with Varian Medical Systems, Interserve Construction at The Christie, and Bouygues UK at UCLH at the end of July 2015. The Christie has been operational since 20 August 2018 and expects the first patients to be treated in the autumn. UCLH is currently on schedule to begin treating patients in summer 2020.

NHS England does not hold information about high-energy proton beam provision in the private sector.

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