Gloucestershire Health and Care- NHS Trust logo
with you, for you
Responses > Minimally Invasive Cancer Therapies (MICTs)

Freedom of Information request Minimally Invasive Cancer Therapies (MICTs)

Response published: 17 July 2025
Misc

FOI Request

I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act (2000). I would be most grateful if you could please provide details on the use of Minimally Invasive Cancer Therapies (MICTs), commissioned or delivered within your Trust area during the 2024-2025 financial year. The types of treatments MICTs include are: • Cryoablation • Selective Internal Radiation Therapy (SIRT) • High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) Please confirm if your Trust does or does not commission any of these procedures. If so, please list the therapies involved. In addition, if your Trust carry out any of these procedures, I would be most grateful if you could please provide me with details of the number of times each therapy was used or delivered within the 2024 – 2025 financial year. To summarise, I am requesting the following: 1. Does your trust commission and/or deliver any of the following MICTs: Cryoablation, Selective Internal Radiation Therapy (SIRT) and High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU)? If yes, which therapies? 2. For each therapy commissioned or delivered, how many times was it used or delivered within the 2024-2025 financial year?

FOI Response

Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 124-2025

Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below.

You asked:

I would be most grateful if you could please provide details on the use of Minimally Invasive Cancer Therapies (MICTs), commissioned or delivered within your Trust area during the 2024-2025 financial year. The types of treatments MICTs include are:

  • Cryoablation
  • Selective Internal Radiation Therapy (SIRT)
  • High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU)

Please confirm if your Trust does or does not commission any of these procedures. If so, please list the therapies involved.

In addition, if your Trust carry out any of these procedures, I would be most grateful if you could please provide me with details of the number of times each therapy was used or delivered within the 2024 – 2025 financial year.

To summarise, I am requesting the following:

  1. Does your trust commission and/or deliver any of the following MICTs: Cryoablation, Selective Internal Radiation Therapy (SIRT) and High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU)? If yes, which therapies?
  2. For each therapy commissioned or delivered, how many times was it used or delivered within the 2024-2025 financial year?

Our response:

The Trust does not provide the service mentioned on your request. Please redirect your request to Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, at ghn-tr.foi@nhs.net

Next steps:

Should you have any queries in relation to our response, please do not hesitate to contact us. If you are unhappy with the response you have received in relation to your request and wish to ask us to review our response, you should write to:

Louise Moss
Head of Legal Services / Associate Director of Corporate Governance
c/o Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Edward Jenner Court
1010 Pioneer Avenue
Gloucester Business Park
Brockworth, GL3 4AW
E-mail: louise.moss@ghc.nhs.uk

If you are not content with the outcome of any review, you may apply directly to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for further advice/guidance. Generally, the ICO will not consider your case unless you have exhausted your enquiries with the Trust which should include considering the use of the Trust’s formal complaints procedure. The ICO can be contacted at: The Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.