10263 (2024). Hon Dr Ayesha Verrall to the Minister of Health

10263 (2024). Hon Dr Ayesha Verrall to the Minister of Health: What progress, if any, has been made in the quarter October – December 2023 to ‘Establish the agreed radiotherapy satellite sites for linear accelerator services (LINAC rollout) to improve people’s access to treatment in their communities, and ensure equity of access to radiotherapy’ under section 2.3 ‘Mate pukupuku | People with cancer’ within Te Whatu Ora’s Te Pae Tata: Interim New Zealand Health Plan 2022?

Hon Dr Shane Reti: I am advised that during the October – December 2023 quarter, enabling works began on a radiotherapy facility in Whangārei that will include a LINAC machine and CT scanner. During the quarter, construction also continued on the Taranaki LINAC and the Te Toka Tumai - Auckland LINAC replacement projects, as did work on a detailed business case for the Te Matau a Māui - Hawke’s Bay project.