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Cancer

Volume 480: debated on Wednesday 8 October 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what recent discussions he has had about the future of cancer care in Merseyside and Cheshire; (221765)

(2) what consideration he has given to improving cancer services on the Clatterbridge Hospital site;

(3) what assessment he has made of the merits of establishing a high dependency cancer unit on site at Clatterbridge Hospital.

The delivery and organisation of services is the responsibility of the national health service locally, working in conjunction with clinicians, patients and other stakeholders. Any proposals regarding cancer services at the Clatterbridge hospital site remain the responsibility of the Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with its local primary care trusts and other relevant stakeholders.

There have been no discussions involving the Secretary of State for Health or his ministerial colleagues on this matter.