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Cancer: Health Services

Commons · Question 27053 · Tabled 28 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 24 Feb 2025

Question

Asked by Clive Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's press release entitled AI technology to help cut cancer waiting lists, published on 21 May 2024, whether his Department has distributed all of the announced fundi

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 24 Feb 2025

The funding for artificially intelligent (AI) radiotherapy contouring quoted in the press release was announced under a previous administration, and was not taken forward at the time.However, AI presents significant opportunities within NHS England to imp...