Spend on cancer per patient in England 2006 - 2007
£11,966
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 policy to guide all exceptional treatment requests.
Cancer treatments funded by PCT following exceptional requests
Since 01 October 2006, the PCT has funded treatment for 49 patients. The treatments were:
- Avastin x 1
- Dasatinib x 2
- Doxetaxel x 7
- Erlotinib x 8
- Gamma Knife x 3
- Herceptin x 12
- Imatinib x 1
- Lenalidomide x 3
- Oxaliplatin and capecitabine x 3
- Pemetrexed x 1
- Retuximab x 3
- Sorafenib x 1
- Temozolomide x 2
- Velcade x 2
Cancer treatments not funded by PCT following exceptional requests
Since 01 October 2006, the PCT has refused funding for the following on an individual basis:
- Dasatinib x 2
- Erlotinib x 7
- Herceptin x 1
- Lenalidomide x 1
- Sorafenib x 3
- Trabectedin x 1
