Radiotherapy: Finance
(asked on 17th September 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to update reimbursement tariffs to incentivise a transition to adaptive radiotherapy.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 29th September 2021
The NHS Long Term Plan set out NHS England and NHS Improvement’s commitment to review the national tariff, in particular to ensure that appropriate incentives are in place to encourage providers to deliver modern techniques and to upgrade and replace equipment. This work has been delayed due to the pandemic.