Prostate Cancer

(asked on 18th May 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what formula his Department applies to the allocation of funding for NHS prostate cancer services to ensure that that funding increases in line with (a) the number of men being diagnosed and (b) requirements for ongoing treatment and monitoring.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 8th July 2021

NHS England is responsible for funding allocations to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and take advice on the underlying formula from the independent Advisory Committee on Resource Allocation. On 10 January the National Health Service published five-year indicative CCG allocations 2019/20 to 2023/24 which are available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/ccg-allocations-2019-20-to-2023-24-core-services/

CCGs commission the majority of hospital and community NHS services in the local areas for which they are responsible for and assess the funding of services for individual cancers, such as prostate cancer. As decisions will be based on local populations needs, funding will be in line with the number of men being diagnosed and requirements for ongoing treatment and monitoring.

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