PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Radiotherapy (15 December 2014)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients requiring proton beam therapy were treated overseas in each of the last five years; and how many such patients were on the high priority list of cancers.

Asked by:
Debbie Abrahams (Labour)

The number of patients accepted for proton beam therapy treatment overseas for the last five years are as follows:

2009-10: 34 patients

2010-11: 54 patients

2011-12: 74 patients

2012-13: 99 patients

2013-14: 124 patients

Total: 385 patients

All of these patients were treated in accordance with the clinical indications list.

Answered by:
Jane Ellison (Conservative)
18 December 2014