Radiotherapy

(asked on 2nd February 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many additional radiotherapy LINACS have been purchased to increase the overall fleet of LINACS used in the NHS in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2023.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 8th February 2023

Until the publication of capital planning guidance covering the period 2022-25, the responsibility of replacing radiotherapy equipment sat with NHS trusts delivering radiotherapy services. NHS England does not hold central records of the machines that trusts purchased directly in 2020, 2021 or 2022.

However, prior to release of the 2022-25 capital guidance, a further circa £32 million of central capital was allocated to support the replacement of circa 17 linear accelerators (LINACs) in the period 2021-22. This was in addition to the circa £130 million central capital investment which enabled the upgrade and/or replacement of circa 100 LINACs during the period 2016-2019.

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