Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to provide additional funding to modernise the NHS's molecular radiotherapy infrastructure.

There are no current plans to provide additional funding to modernise the National Health Service molecular radiotherapy infrastructure. However, work is currently underway to revise the Brachytherapy and Molecular Radiotherapy Service Specification and to understand current service readiness to expand access to new molecular radiotherapy treatments, should they be approved by National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). This will help to inform what support needs to be put in place. NHS England commissions treatments that have either been approved via the NICE technology appraisal process or NHS England’s clinical commissioning development process. Service provision will normally be reviewed at the point that new treatments are approved through either of these two routes. Where additional capacity is required to meet demand, this will be put in place.