Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which hospitals in the North East are treating patients with (a) stereotactic radiosurgery (b) stereotactic ablative radiotherapy; and how many patients have been treated in both categories since April 2013.

On 15 June 2015, NHS England announced that the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are among 17 centres across the country to begin to treat patients with stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR), as part of a £15 million investment to assess the use of SABR.

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust will be among the first centres to treat patients with SABR.

Source: The Health and Social Care Information Centre, Hospital Episodes Statistics database 2013-14.

Notes:

1. 2013-14 is the latest data available.

2. Return is based on using the codes supplied by the classifications service (A10.7 Stereotactic radiosurgery on tissue of the brain and Y91.5 Megavoltage treatment for hypofractioned stereotactic radiotherapy).

3. There are no specific OPCS-4.7 codes that classify stereotactic ablative radiotherapy. The terms stereotactic radiosurgery and stereotactic radiotherapy are sometimes used synonymously.