Brain: Tumours

Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 23 July 2018.

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Photo of Helen Jones Helen Jones Chair, Petitions Committee, Chair, Petitions Committee

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to (a) establish a national network of brain tumour centres and (b) encourage more researchers to enter the brain tumour research field.

Photo of Caroline Dinenage Caroline Dinenage Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

NHS England works closely with the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to support cancer research centres across the country in Manchester, Oxford and Cambridge and NIHR Biomedical Research Centres at the Marsden-ICR and Manchester.

On 14 May the Government announced £40 million over the next five years for brain tumour research. This should help to encourage more researchers to enter the brain tumour research field. Funding will be invested through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). We have published a NIHR Highlight Notice, which calls for applications on brain tumour research across a range of NIHR research funding programmes plus NIHR Research Training programmes.

Through the NIHR we attract, develop and retain a highly skilled health and care research workforce. As part of this, NIHR training programmes were established to attract more researchers into applied and translational research. Since 2012 the NIHR has invested in excess of £5.8 million supporting seven individuals for research in the brain tumour research field.

A number of NIHR Biomedical Research Centres (BRCs) include research themes in brain tumour research and, included as part of these BRCs, are doctoral training programmes to bring through the next generation of research leaders.

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