Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients NHS England agreed to the treatment of by Selective Internal Radiation Therapy (SIRT) under Service Specification BOI/S/c(SIRT) of the Commissioning through Evaluation (CtE) process; and how many patients they plan to be treated with SIRT before the CtE assessment period begins.

NHS England estimates that 150-200 metastatic colorectal cancer patients per year and 15-20 intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma patients per year could be eligible to access Selective Internal Radiation Therapy through the Commissioning through Evaluation programme at the time of designing the scheme. It is expected that over 500 patients will be recruited to the programme by the end of March 2017.