Andrew Gwynne – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Gwynne on 2014-06-17.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much and what proportion of national cancer spend was spent on radiotherapy in each of the last five years.
Jane Ellison
The information is shown in the following table:
Estimated expenditure on cancer services and radiotherapy, 2008-09 to 2012-13, £ millions in 2012-13 prices
|
Year |
Cancers and tumours |
Radiotherapy |
|
2008-09 |
5,281 |
401 |
|
2009-10 |
5,908 |
435 |
|
2010-11 |
5,685 |
467 |
|
2011-12 |
5,565 |
473 |
|
2012-13 |
5,681 |
485 |
Sources:
Programme budgeting data, NHS England
Reference costs, Department of Health
It is not appropriate for a given service to present reference costs as a proportion of programme budgeting expenditure. This is because radiotherapy data are calculated from reference costs, which are the unit costs to National Health Service trusts and NHS foundation trusts of providing defined services in a given financial year to NHS patients. Reference costs do not represent all expenditure in the NHS, and are costs to NHS providers whereas programme budgeting data are expenditure by NHS commissioners.
