Radiotherapy
Commons · Question 38566 · Tabled 17 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 20 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by Grahame Morris
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to (a) decentralise the commissioning of radiotherapy and (b) give English regions more control over (i) treatment pathways and (ii) new radiotherapy technologies.
Answer
Answered by Ashley Dalton, 20 Mar 2025
The Government is investing £70 million of central funding to replace radiotherapy machines, to ensure the most advanced treatment is available to patients who need it, however since April 2022, the responsibility for investing in new radiotherapy machine...