Twenty Additional NHS Lung Trucks

This week, the Government announced an additional 20 NHS lung truck sites, offering life-saving health checks and ensuring hundreds of people get an earlier diagnosis. 

Thanks to the mobile NHS mobile trucks, 600 people across the country have been diagnosed with lung cancer earlier. 

That is why the Government have pledged a further 20 NHS lung truck sites with capacity to invite 750,000 more people at increased risk of lung cancer, in efforts to catch thousands more cancers at an earlier stage. 

This community scheme will ensure hundreds of people get an earlier diagnosis, allowing them to get treatment as soon as possible while supporting the NHS to bust the Covid backlog. 

Linking alongside this, I am pleased to see that patients with certain types of lung cancer continue to have their treatment times dramatically cut with the new type of radiotherapy at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH).

This new type of radiotherapy reduces the number of treatments  from  20-30 to just 3-5 by delivering a higher, targeted dose of radiation to the tumour.  This avoids the need for constituents to make numerous visits to the hospital.

For more information on live-saving NHS lung checks, please visit: https://www.england.nhs.uk/2022/04/hundreds-of-people-diagnosed-with-cancer-early-through-life-saving-nhs-lung-checks/.