Spend on cancer per patient in England 2006 - 2007

£8,319

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
Bury PCT has a written Effective Use of Resources (EUR) policy.  Exceptional requests for cancer treatment are assessed through the EUR process.

EUR panel members

• A chairperson
• Director of Public Health
• Programme Director Medicines Management
• Two GPs
• Director of Governance/Standards
• A commissioner
• A lay person
• The PALS Officer
• The Lead Officer EUR

Cancer treatments funded by PCT following exceptional requests

Since 01 October 2006 six requests for cancer treatment have been approved by the PCT.  The treatments and their cost were as follows:

• matched unrelated donor transplant (approximately £87,000)
• matched unrelated donor transplant (approximately £85,000)
• matched unrelated donor transplant (approximately £87,000)
• possible matched unrelated donor transplant (approximately £87,000)
• sunitinib (£3000 per month for two months)
• sunitinib (total cost £19,000)

Cancer treatments not funded by PCT following exceptional requests

Since 01 October 2006, one request for Nexavar was not funded (cost was approximately £15,000).