Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of providing (a) radiotherapy and (b) chemotherapy treatments in York on travel times for patients.
No assessment has been made.
Radiotherapy services are currently provided to patients living in the York area at Castle Hill Hospital in Cottingham, East Yorkshire or at the Leeds Cancer Centre.
Chemotherapy services are provided by York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust at York and Scarborough hospitals and at a mobile chemotherapy unit, which is funded by York Against Cancer.
Specialised services are not available in every local hospital because they have to be delivered by specialist teams of health professionals who have the necessary skills, experience and access to equipment and medicines.