Spend on cancer per patient in England 2006 - 2007

£7,643

Compare this with other PCTs: highest amount spent was £17,028, lowest was £5,182, and average PCT spend per cancer patient was £8,437.

Exceptional funding for cancer treatment

The following information was requested from the PCT under the Freedom of Information Act.

Written protocols
The PCT has written protocols to assess exceptional requests for cancer treatments.

Cancer treatments funded by PCT following exceptional requests

Since 01 October 2006, six patients' requests have been approved by the PCT.  The treatments were:

• Bortezomid
• Sunitinib

Cancer treatments not funded by PCT following exceptional requests

Since 01 October 2006, the following treatments have not been funded:

• Erlotinib
• Thalidomide