Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 9 September 2024.
Yasmin Qureshi
Labour, Bolton South and Walkden
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether (a) it remains his policy to double the number of cancer scanners in the NHS and (b) that includes doubling the number of positron emission tomography scanners.
Karin Smyth
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
We are working towards our commitment of doubling cancer scanners to address the challenges in diagnostic waiting times. Our commitment is related to magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography (CT) but of course we are also considering what increase in PET Computed Tomography (PET-CT) capacity is needed to accelerate cancer diagnosis and build a National Health Service fit for the future.
Yes3 people think so
No2 people think not
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