United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 6050
Radiotherapy: Medical Equipment
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21 January 2020
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29 January 2020 · Answer
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Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of linear accelerator radiotherapy machines in use at NHS Trusts that are past the recommended 10 year lifespan; and if he will make a statement.
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21 January 2020
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of linear accelerator radiotherapy machines in use at NHS Trusts that are past the recommended 10 year lifespan; and if he will make a statement.
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29 January 2020
Answer
NHS England produced a stocktake, which included age, of linear accelerators in full clinical use in 2016 as part of the Equipment Modernisation programme, which enabled 80 machines to be replaced or upgraded. Further work to update this stocktake is unde...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-01-21/6050
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1172313
- uk · wq-1172313 · source updated 29 January 2020