Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 44464

Radiotherapy

Tabled: 7 April 2025
Answered: 24 April 2025

Question

Sir James Cleverly

Conservative — Braintree

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS cancer trusts are (a) delivering radiotherapy contouring planning manually and (b) using AI auto contouring for radiotherapy.

Answer

Ashley Dalton
NHS England undertook a baseline assessment of artificially intelligent (AI) auto-contouring systems in summer 2024 which indicated that, at that time, 39 trusts had some AI arrangements in place.The use of AI auto contouring technology to plan for treatm...
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