NHS: Radioisotopes

(asked on 16th July 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of effectiveness of the Health Infrastructure Plan to update and improve the capability of the NHS to deliver nuclear medicine; and if he will make it his policy to increase the number of centres that are equipped to offer nuclear medicine.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 18th August 2020

No assessment has been made.

Not all nuclear medicine services are commissioned at a national level; some are commissioned by clinical commissioning groups.

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