Cancer: Radiotherapy

(asked on 19th October 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans she has to help improve access to radiotherapy for patients waiting for cancer treatment.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 8th November 2022

Since 2016, NHS England has invested over £160 million in radiotherapy equipment which has replaced or upgraded approximately 100 linear accelerators and ensuring local access to advanced radiotherapy techniques and treatments, such as Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy.

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