Spend on cancer per patient in England 2006 - 2007

£8,877

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 a written protocol/process used to assess exceptional requests for cancer treatment.

Cancer treatments funded by PCT following exceptional requests

Since 01 October 2006, the PCT has funded one patient's exceptional request for cancer treatment.  The treatment approved was Tarceva.

Cancer treatments not funded by PCT following exceptional requests

The PCT was asked to list all cancer treatments which it has not funded following an exceptional request since 01 October 2006. The response was "None".