Cancer: Radiotherapy
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many cancer patients are waiting for radiotherapy treatment in (a) England and (b) Surrey for which the latest data is available.
Answered by Ashley Dalton
The information is not available in the format requested. Information on the 31-day cancer treatment waiting time standard, including the number of patients who received radiotherapy and whether their treatment was within the 31-days, is available for England and the Surrey Heartlands Integrated Care Board (ICB). The following table shows the number of people receiving radiotherapy for cancer, as of August 2025, for England and the Surrey Heartlands ICB:
Area | Total | Within 31 days | Percentage treated within 31 days |
England | 10,798 | 9,629 | 89.2% |
Surrey Heartlands ICB | 223 | 213 | 95.5% |
Source: NHS England’s Cancer Waiting Times statistics: Commissioner Based, August 2025, available at the following link:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/AUGUST-2025-CWT-CRS-COMMISSIONER-WORKBOOK-PROVISIONAL.xlsx
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