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759731

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Radiotherapy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time was for cancer patients to receive radiotherapy treatment following their operations in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Midlothian
	tabling member printed	Danielle Rowley
	uin	10301
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 09/10/2017 12:40:58 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4628 label Biography information for Danielle Rowley

792993

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Radiotherapy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, in which ten areas of England do residents have the longest travel times to their nearest radiotherapy units.
	tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
	tabling member printed	Tim Farron
	uin	114778
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2017 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>Public Health England advises that a postcode-level dataset that will enable the calculation of travel times to radiotherapy units is currently in development by the National Cancer Registry and Analysis Service. Results will be published in 2018.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 29/11/2017 17:14:42 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

833793

	registered interest
	date	30/01/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Radiotherapy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to widen access to proton radiotherapy for cancer patients in England.
	tabling member constituency	Hornchurch and Upminster
	tabling member printed	Julia Lopez
	uin	125551
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2018 answer text <p>In April 2012, my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State announced that £250 million will be invested to build proton beam therapy facilities at The Christie Hospital in Manchester and University College London Hospitals in London. Building work is well underway on both sites and service planning and development is on schedule to begin treating patients from August 2018 at The Christie and summer 2020 for University College London Hospitals.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 07/02/2018 13:59:24 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez

910321

	registered interest
	date	23/05/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Radiotherapy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to spend a proportion of the £130 million allotted to modernise radiotherapy on new linac machines for newly commissioned satellite centres.
	tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
	tabling member printed	Tim Farron
	uin	147420
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2018 answer text <p>The radiotherapy modernisation fund, launched in October 2016, committed £130 million of investment to develop and upgrade current linear accelerators aged 10 years or more. By the end of March 2018, the fund had enabled the replacement or upgrade of 56 machines. Future funding decisions, including on new satellite centres, will be made after the fund ends in October 2018.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 147421 question first answered 04/06/2018 13:41:50 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

910322

	registered interest
	date	23/05/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Radiotherapy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what further funding will be available for modernising radiotherapy after the closure of the current fund in October 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
	tabling member printed	Tim Farron
	uin	147421
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2018 answer text <p>The radiotherapy modernisation fund, launched in October 2016, committed £130 million of investment to develop and upgrade current linear accelerators aged 10 years or more. By the end of March 2018, the fund had enabled the replacement or upgrade of 56 machines. Future funding decisions, including on new satellite centres, will be made after the fund ends in October 2018.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 147420 question first answered 04/06/2018 13:41:50 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

910325

	registered interest
	date	23/05/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Radiotherapy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 29 November 2017 to Question 114778, when the postcode-level dataset which will enable the calculation of travel times to radiotherapy centres will be published.
	tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
	tabling member printed	Tim Farron
	uin	147424
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2018 answer text <p>The National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service intend to publish reports on travel times for cancer patients in June 2018.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 04/06/2018 13:54:19 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

915098

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Radiotherapy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to allocate funding to more efficient forms of radiotherapy technology; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
	tabling member printed	Tim Farron
	uin	148714
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2018 answer text <p>Significant investments have been, and continue to be, made to improve both the efficiency of radiotherapy equipment and the range of more innovative radiotherapy treatments that are routinely available to patients:</p><p>- In October 2016, NHS England announced a £130 million fund to modernise radiotherapy across England, ensuring that older linear accelerators (LINACs - radiotherapy machines) are either upgraded or replaced. These upgraded/new machines will deliver both a wider range of innovative treatment techniques and are also significantly faster, enabling more patients to benefit from the latest technology regardless of where they live;</p><p>- NHS England has also committed £15 million over three years to evaluate the benefits of stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) in the treatment of a number of new clinical indications. SABR is an innovative radiotherapy technique that more precisely targets cancers with radiotherapy, reducing the damage to the surrounding tissues. A further £6 million was also committed by NHS England to support a number of Cancer Research UK sponsored SABR clinical trials. It is envisaged that the results of both the trials and the evaluation programme will enable more patients to routinely access SABR treatments;</p><p>- Following an investment of £23 million to improve access to Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT), another more precise form of radiotherapy with fewer side effects, the National Health Service is now regularly exceeding access standards, meaning that more people are benefiting from this treatment. The percentage of radiotherapy patients who received IMRT increased from 10% (1,660) in April to June 2012 to 44% (8,865) in January to March 2017. The current access standard is 24%; and</p><p>- In 2012, the Government provided £250 million to build two proton beam therapy centres in England (at University College London Hospital and The Christie in Manchester), the first of which will become operational in autumn 2018.</p><p>No assessment has been made of the effect of national prices for radiotherapy treatment.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 148715 question first answered 06/06/2018 16:01:48 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

915099

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Radiotherapy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect of the internal market tariff on the effectiveness of the NHS delivery of radiotherapy.
	tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
	tabling member printed	Tim Farron
	uin	148715
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2018 answer text <p>Significant investments have been, and continue to be, made to improve both the efficiency of radiotherapy equipment and the range of more innovative radiotherapy treatments that are routinely available to patients:</p><p>- In October 2016, NHS England announced a £130 million fund to modernise radiotherapy across England, ensuring that older linear accelerators (LINACs - radiotherapy machines) are either upgraded or replaced. These upgraded/new machines will deliver both a wider range of innovative treatment techniques and are also significantly faster, enabling more patients to benefit from the latest technology regardless of where they live;</p><p>- NHS England has also committed £15 million over three years to evaluate the benefits of stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) in the treatment of a number of new clinical indications. SABR is an innovative radiotherapy technique that more precisely targets cancers with radiotherapy, reducing the damage to the surrounding tissues. A further £6 million was also committed by NHS England to support a number of Cancer Research UK sponsored SABR clinical trials. It is envisaged that the results of both the trials and the evaluation programme will enable more patients to routinely access SABR treatments;</p><p>- Following an investment of £23 million to improve access to Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT), another more precise form of radiotherapy with fewer side effects, the National Health Service is now regularly exceeding access standards, meaning that more people are benefiting from this treatment. The percentage of radiotherapy patients who received IMRT increased from 10% (1,660) in April to June 2012 to 44% (8,865) in January to March 2017. The current access standard is 24%; and</p><p>- In 2012, the Government provided £250 million to build two proton beam therapy centres in England (at University College London Hospital and The Christie in Manchester), the first of which will become operational in autumn 2018.</p><p>No assessment has been made of the effect of national prices for radiotherapy treatment.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 148714 question first answered 06/06/2018 16:01:48 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

919198

	registered interest
	date	07/06/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Radiotherapy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of the £130 million allocated to modernise radiotherapy has been spent on new linac machines for newly commissioned satellite centres.
	tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
	tabling member printed	Tim Farron
	uin	151134
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2018 answer text <p>The purpose of the £130 million modernisation fund was to upgrade or replace existing, older radiotherapy equipment. None of this funding was therefore spent on new equipment for newly commissioned satellite centres. Future funding decisions, including on new satellite centres, will be made after the fund ends in October 2018.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 14/06/2018 10:56:11 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

968146

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Radiotherapy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the performance of Clinical Commissioning Groups to improve access to advanced radiotherapy.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	170800
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>Clinical commissioning groups are not responsible for ensuring access to advanced radiotherapy techniques, such as Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT). The commissioning of all radiotherapy in England is the responsibility of NHS England’s Specialised Commissioning team. Access to IMRT is monitored against a national average access standard of 25%, performance against this standard is consistently around 45%. From April 2019, Radiotherapy Networks, working in close partnership with Specialised Commissioners and Cancer Alliances, will play a key role in increasing access to both advanced and innovative radiotherapy, as well as ensuring adherence to best practice treatment protocols.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 171340 question first answered 11/09/2018 14:23:08 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris