Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to change reimbursement tariffs to help incentivise (a) modern forms of radiotherapy and (b) adaptive radiotherapy.

NHS England has signalled its intent to revise the reimbursement arrangements for radiotherapy as part of its consultation on National Health Service tariff arrangements ‘2023/25 NHS Payment Scheme – a consultation notice’, released in December 2022. The new arrangements aim to deliver the NHS Long Term Plan ambition to incentivise innovative forms of radiotherapy, for example the use of hypofractionated protocols, and timely equipment replacement.