To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) applications to the Cancer Drugs Fund and (b) individual funding requests for cancer medicines were approved in (i) 2010-11, (ii) 2011-12, (iii) 2012-13 and (iv) 2013-14.
Answered on
4 February 2015
Information on the number of applications to the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF) in 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2012-13 is not held centrally and information on Individual Funding Requests to primary care trusts for cancer medicines was not collected centrally during this period.
NHS England has had oversight of the Fund since April 2013 and publishes information on patient numbers funded through the national CDF list and through individual Cancer Drugs Fund requests (ICDFRs) routinely on its website at:
www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/pe/cdf/
Information on the number of patients1 accessing the Fund in these years is shown below:
Number of patients funded in 2010-112 | Number of patients funded in | Number of patients funded in | Number of patients funded in | Number of patients funded in | |
England | 2,780 | 11,798 | 15,456 | 19,560 | 11,308 |
1 Some individual patients may be double-counted where a patient has received more than one drug treatment through the CDF
2 Source: Information provided to the Department by strategic health authorities
3 Source: NHS England
4 To end September 2014