Radiotherapy

(asked on 24th February 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients were sent abroad for proton therapy in each of the last five years; how many such patients were children in each of those years; and what the annual cost was to the NHS in each of those years.


Answered by
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Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 3rd March 2015

The information requested is provided in the following tables.

Number of patients sent abroad for proton beam therapy (PBT) in the last five years

Adult

Paediatric

Total Approved

2010

22

34

56

2011

19

61

80

2012

20

86

106

2013

23

99

122

2014

32

102

134

Cost to the National Health Service of sending patients abroad for PBT in the last five years

2009-10

£1.32 million

2010-11

£4.48 million

2011-12

£8.80 million

2012-12

£8.23 million

2013-14

£9.63 million

In April 2012, the Secretary of State announced that £250 million will be invested to build PBT facilities at The Christie Hospital in Manchester and University College London Hospitals. Work has already started and the first facility is due to become operational in 2018.

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