Cancer: Easington
(asked on 14th January 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients in Easington constituency have accessed the Cancer Drugs Fund in each year since 2010.
Prior to April 2013, information on the Cancer Drugs Fund was administered through clinical panels based in each strategic health authority (SHA) and data on the number of patients accessing the Fund at constituency level were not collected. Information for the North East SHA and England in 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2012-13 is shown below:
| Number of patients1 funded in 2010-11 | Number of patients funded in | Number of patients funded in |
North East SHA | 420 | 696 | 526 |
England | 2,780 | 11,798 | 15,456 |
Source: Information provided to the Department by SHAs
1 Some individual patients may be double-counted where a patient has received more than one drug treatment through the Cancer Drugs Fund
NHS England has had oversight of the Fund since April 2013 and publishes information on patient numbers routinely on its website at:
www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/pe/cdf/
Information for the NHS England North of England region and England in 2013-14 and 2014-15 (April- September) is shown below:
| Number of patients1 funded in 2013-14 | Number of patients funded in (April- September) |
North of England, NHS England2 | 5,327 | 3,027 |
England | 19,560 | 11,308 |
Source: NHS England
1 Some individual patients may be double-counted where a patient has received more than one drug treatment through the Cancer Drugs Fund
2 Includes individual cancer drugs fund request applications approved by the Cancer Drugs Fund panel in the North region