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 KnifeĀ® 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.