Cumbria and Lancashire Strategic Health Authority

HC Deb 24 October 2002 vol 391 cc508-10W

Mr. Jack

To ask the Secretary of State for Health when the Lancashire and South Cumbria Strategic Health Authority received details of the proposed further distribution of additional CT scanners for their area of responsibility. [75983]

Jacqui Smith

[holding answer 22 October 2002]: Officials in the Department wrote to the chief executives of the strategic health authorities on 2 September 2002, requesting details of priority candidates for the proposed allocations of additional commuted tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners. The chief executive of the Cumbria and Lancashire Strategic Health Authority was included in this exercise together with all of the relevant leads from the cancer networks.