The Rarer Cancers Forum: Heart Of Birmingham Teaching PCT
Tue, 07 Oct 2008
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TRUST US?
PCT name Heart Of Birmingham Teaching PCT
PCT Website http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/Trust.aspx?id=5MX
Cancer network
MP name Ms Gisela Stuart (visit website)

Spend on cancer per patient in England 2006 - 2007

£14,511

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 Teaching PCT has a policy on the management of interventions which are not routinely commissioned.

Cancer treatments funded by PCT following exceptional requests

Four patients were funded in financial year 2007/2008.  Treatments funded were:

  • Inflixumab and dacluzimab as third line therapy for patient who could not tolerate any form of chemotherapy for a rare form of cancer
  • Velcade for bone marrow cancer
  • Sunitinib for renal cancer
  • Velcade for myeloma

Cancer treatments not funded by PCT following exceptional requests

In the financial year 2007/2008 the following treatments were not funded:

  • Nilitonib for CML
  • Adjuvant Avastin for advanced colorectal cancer (two requests)
  • Sunitinib for renal cancer (four requests)

Last modified: Monday, August 18, 2008
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