Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will direct NHS England to enable University College London Hospital to use the Gamma Knife on the same terms as it enables University Hospitals Bristol to use that equipment.

NHS England has advised that the future provision of Stereotactic Radiosurgery services for the National Health Service in England will be determined by the procurement exercise that will follow on from the consultation exercise that has recently ended. Until this process is completed there are no plans to change current commissioning arrangements.

All feedback received via the online consultation for the Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Radiotherapy Services Needs Assessment and Service Review will be collated and summarised and a report of the consultation findings will be considered by the Specialised Commissioning Oversight Group.

NHS England will publish a report outlining the key themes of the consultation findings on its website.