PHS FOI 2026-002486
- Date of request
- 21 September 2026
- Date of response
- 09 October 2026
- FOI request ID
- PHS FOI 2026-002486
- Conditions and diseases
Request
- Prostate radiotherapy activity
For the latest available complete financial or calendar year, ideally with equivalent figures for the preceding two years, please provide:
- The number of unique prostate cancer patients receiving external beam radiotherapy.
- The number receiving radical or definitive external beam radiotherapy.
- The number receiving stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT/SABR), where recorded separately.
- The number receiving prostate brachytherapy.
- The number of patients receiving a rectal spacer before radiotherapy, if recorded.
Where possible, please provide figures by radiotherapy treatment centre, including Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee and Inverness, and any additional facilities recorded separately.
For radiotherapy activity, I am seeking patient numbers rather than treatment fractions or appointments, to avoid counting the same patient multiple times.
- Data definitions and availability
Please advise whether the available data distinguish unique patients from procedures or treatment courses, and whether any relevant treatment categories are incompletely recorded.
I am requesting aggregate activity data only and do not require any patient-identifiable information.
An existing spreadsheet or CSV extract would be ideal, but links to published sources would also be very helpful