Colleen Fletcher – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Colleen Fletcher on 2016-10-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the number of patients who have been denied a second allogeneic stem cell transplant following an individual funding request in each of the last three years; and what estimate his Department has made of the associated cost saving to the health service.

Nicola Blackwood

The total number of Individual Funding Requests for a second allogenic stem cell transplant that were declined during the calendar years 2013, 2014 and 2015 is below NHS England’s threshold for releasing individual data, as fewer than 10 individual funding requests were declined.

Due to the complexity of such treatments, and any alternatives used, it is not possible to assess any associated cost impact to the National Health Service.