Haematological Cancer: Drugs

(asked on 22nd October 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the current level of spending by the NHS on blood cancer treatment; and what estimate they have made of the proportion of the NHS budget that will be spent on blood cancer treatments in each of the next five years.


Answered by
Lord O'Shaughnessy Portrait
Lord O'Shaughnessy
This question was answered on 5th November 2018

NHS England is unable to provide current or previous spend on drugs specifically for blood cancer as many of these drugs have multiple indications. For the same reason it is not possible to estimate future spend.

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