Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to ensure access to CT scanning is more readily available to NHS patients.

All acute trusts have access to computerised tomography (CT) and NHS England is not aware of any patient access problems. The NHS England standards for seven day services support seven day access to CT. CT involves ionising radiation, so is a test that has to be justified and used in appropriate patient pathways.