Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which hospitals in England have used stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) to treat both benign and malignant tumours of the brain; which of those hospitals have contracts with NHS England to deliver SRS; and which non-contracted hospitals have received payment from NHS England for delivering SRS since 1 April 2013.

The following hospitals were contracted NHS England providers of stereotactic radiotherapy and stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) in 2013-14:

- Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge;

- Bupa Cromwell, London;

- Derriford Hospital, Plymouth;

- Mount Vernon Hospital, Middlesex;

- Nova Healthcare/Leeds Teaching Hospitals;

- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals;

- Royal Preston Hospital, Lancashire;

- Salford Royal Hospital, Salford/The Christie, Manchester;

- St Bartholomew Hospital, London;

- Thornbury Gamma Knife® Centre, Sheffield;

- The Walton Centre, Liverpool/Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology, Wirral;

- University Hospital Birmingham; and

- University Hospital Bristol.

In early 2013-14, during the transition period associated with setting up the new commissioning arrangements, NHS England paid for SRS activity from two non-contracted providers: Queens Square Radiotherapy Centre Ltd and the Thornbury Radiosurgery Centre Ltd. However, during 2013 the Thornbury Centre became a contracted provider.