Asked by: Adnan Hussain (Independent - Blackburn)
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 the potential merits of including a targeted additional dose of radiotherapy within the National Cancer Plan.
Answered by Andrew Gwynne - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
No assessment has been made. This Government’s Health Mission will aim to make progress against major diseases, including cancer.
The NHS Long-Term Plan sets out the National Health Service’s key ambitions on cancer to increase the number of cancers diagnosed at stages one and two to 75% by 2028 and to increase the number of people surviving cancer for five years by 55,000 as a result.
NHS England is the accountable commissioner for radiotherapy which is a prescribed specialised service. Standards for service delivery are set out in the service specification, which is available at the following link:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/spec-services/npc-crg/group-b/b01/