Diseases

(asked on 2nd December 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the (a) target, (b) average and (c) longest time taken to approve individual funding requests are for diseases in the last 12 months for which data is available.


Answered by
George Freeman Portrait
George Freeman
This question was answered on 9th December 2015

NHS England has advised that its standard operating procedures published target to process individual funding requests is 40 days. This is for all cases no matter what their outcome.


In the last 12 months for which data is available, NHS England has advised that the average approval time was 20 days, with the longest approval time being 66 days and the shortest being two days.

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