Mar. 14 2024
Source Page: Freedom of Information responses from the MHRA - week commencing 4 December 2023Found: (7), colit is ulcerative (7), cardiac failure (7), inguinal hernia (7 ), scl erotherapy (6), and radiotherapy
Asked by: Peter Dowd (Labour - Bootle)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will take steps to recruit an additional 2,000 radiotherapy professionals by 2040.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
In June 2023, NHS England published the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan, which sets out the steps the National Health Service and its partners need to take to deliver a workforce that meets the changing needs of the population, over the next 15 years. The plan recognises the need to increase numbers of allied health professionals (AHPs), including therapeutic and diagnostic radiographers. To address this, we will increase AHP training places from a little over 15,000 in 2021/22 to 17,000 by 2028/89, and then 18,800 by 2031/32, a total increase of approximately 25%. National funding is available to train 150 enhanced practice radiographers a year, to support the diagnosis of cancer and other conditions.
We have already seen increases in the radiotherapy workforce in NHS trusts and other care organisations in England. In November 2023, there were 894 full-time equivalent (FTE) consultants working in the specialty of clinical oncology, an increase of 40, or 4.6%, since November 2022 and 395, or 79.0%, since November 2010. There are also 3,141 FTE therapeutic radiographers, an increase of 133, or 4.4%, since November 2022 and 1,046, or 50.0%, since November 2010. We are also focused on improving cancer treatment, and are supporting advances in radiotherapy, such as using cutting-edge imaging and technology to help target radiation doses at cancer cells more precisely.
Mar. 13 2024
Source Page: Immigration Rules archive: 22 February 2024 to 10 March 2024Found: 2213 Pharmacists – all jobs Yes Yes Yes Yes 2217 Medical radiographers – all jobs (including radiotherapy
Mar. 13 2024
Source Page: Letter dated 03/04/2024 from Steve Russell, National Director for Vaccination and Screening and Chief Delivery Officer, NHS England, and Deborah Tomalin, Director of Screening, NHS England to Victoria Atkins MP and Jonathan Marron, Director-General, Department of Health and Social Care, regarding referrals into the very high risk breast screening programme - action the NHS is taking to support affected women. 5p.Found: of the failure to refer for annual MRI surveillance a number of women who have been treated with radiotherapy
Mentions:
1: Sarah Olney (LD - Richmond Park) During the six months that her daughter received chemotherapy and radiotherapy at University College - Speech Link
2: Andrea Leadsom (Con - South Northamptonshire) Under both options, all radiotherapy for children with cancer would be at University College Hospital.Both - Speech Link
Asked by: Peter Dowd (Labour - Bootle)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions she has had with Integrated Care Boards in England on replacement programmes for radiotherapy machinery (LINACS); and what mechanisms are in place to allow her Department to oversee the effectiveness of those replacement programmes.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Since April 2022, the responsibility for investing in new radiotherapy machines has sat with local systems. This is supported by the 2021 Spending Review, which set aside £12 billion in operational capital for the National Health Service, from 2022 to 2025.
The Government and NHS England are already taking steps to ensure that cancer patients can receive high quality radiotherapy treatment across England. This includes supporting advances in radiotherapy, using cutting-edge imaging and technology to help target radiation doses at cancer cells more precisely.
Mentions:
1: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) Is there any room in the capital spending that she set out for large-scale investment in radiotherapy - Speech Link
Mar. 11 2024
Source Page: Secretary of State speech at Tech UK, LondonFound: If you came in for your radiotherapy treatment a year or two ago, it might have taken a doctor three
Mar. 11 2024
Source Page: Equity in medical devices: independent review - final reportFound: AI algorithm development InnerEye was a project in Cambridge to develop an AI algorithm to support radiotherapy
Mar. 11 2024
Source Page: Equity in medical devices: independent review - final reportFound: AI algorithm development InnerEye was a project in Cambridge to develop an AI algorithm to support radiotherapy