Cancer: Drugs

Health written question – answered at on 29 August 2013.

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Photo of Sarah Newton Sarah Newton Conservative, Truro and Falmouth

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the number of people in each strategic health authority area who have received treatment as a consequence of the introduction of the Cancer Drugs Fund.

Photo of Norman Lamb Norman Lamb The Minister of State, Department of Health

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave her on 18 June 2013, Hansard, column 656W.

Strategic health authorities no longer exist. NHS England took responsibility for the Cancer Drugs Fund from April 2013 and information on the number of patients funded through the Cancer Drugs Fund for 2013-14 is not yet available. NHS England is currently considering what information will be made available routinely and how it will be made available.

NHS England has advised that it has collected data on the use of the Cancer Drugs Fund for the first quarter of 2013-14 and it expects this to be made available shortly. Thereafter, data will be published quarterly.

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