MRI and CT screening machines

The Prime Minister has announced a promise to deliver new funding for frontline NHS state-of-the-art MRI and CT screening machines, so our brilliant NHS staff have the tools they need for quicker cancer diagnosis and higher survival rates.

 

• Cancer survival rates are now at a record high and this £200 million new NHS funding will help ensure that 55,000 more people survive cancer every year.

 

• Over 300 diagnostic machines in hospitals across England will bring us closer to our ambition of becoming a global leader in cancer diagnosis, providing the very best care - wherever you live, and whatever your condition.

There are two meetings coming up at which Health Scrutiny councillors will be meeting NHS system leaders and discussing the NHS in Cumbria, and I will be ensuring that the question of whether we in Cumbria should be bidding for some of this money is raised.