Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the supply of Choline C-11 injection to meet the demand for PET scans for people with prostate cancer.

NHS England intends to review access to tracers that have a short half-life, such as 11C Choline, following the conclusion of the national Phase II Positron Emission Tomography- Computed Tomography procurement. It is expected that this work will be undertaken in early 2019.

The clinical commissioning policy statement can be found at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Positron-emission-tomography-Computed-tomography-guidelines-all-ages.pdf