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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...