NHS: Finance
(asked on 15th December 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many individual funding requests have been made to NHS England in each month since April 2013; and how many have of those been refused.
The information requested is shown in the table.
Month | Total number of individual funding requests received | Total number of requests declined |
April 2013 | 490 | 88 |
May 2013 | 719 | 108 |
June 2013 | 510 | 69 |
July 2013 | 513 | 99 |
August 2013 | 423 | 65 |
September 2013 | 345 | 68 |
October 2013 | 442 | 98 |
November 2013 | 350 | 86 |
December 2013 | 330 | 49 |
January 2014 | 362 | 62 |
February 2014 | 323 | 51 |
March 2014 | 316 | 54 |
April 2014 | 304 | 41 |
May 2014 | 338 | 56 |
June 2014 | 314 | 41 |
July 2014 | 358 | 74 |
August 2014 | 309 | 56 |
September 2014 | 296 | 50 |
October 2014 | 306 | 72 |
November 2014 | 246 | 38 |
Source: NHS England
This information does not include applications for cancer medicines as these are either routinely commissioned or handled via the Cancer Drugs Fund. NHS England publishes quarterly information on the number of individual Cancer Drugs Fund applications, including those refused. This information is available at:
www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/pe/cdf/