Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 22 May 2018 to Question 145302 on Patients: Travel, what steps his Department has taken to publish the report on patient travel times.

The National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service has published three reports relating to patient travel times and cancer: ‘Travel Times and Methodology’ summarises our investigations of several possible ways of calculating travel times; ‘Travel Times and Cancer Survival’ is an overview of survival for the four most common cancers, relative to travel time to the nearest hospital with a relevant mutli-disciplinary team; and ‘Travel Times and Cancer Treatment’ looks at treatment with radiotherapy for localised prostate cancer, relative to travel time to a radiotherapy centre.

The reports are available at the following link:

http://www.ncin.org.uk/cancer_type_and_topic_specific_work/topic_specific_work/travel_times