Cancer: Finance
(asked on 2nd November 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of the Cancer Transformation Funding in 2017-18 has been provided to Cancer Alliances; and whether any remaining funding will be rolled over into the budget for 2018-19 in order to ensure that NHS England meets its cancer strategy funding commitments.
All Cancer Alliances have a delivery plan in place for the Cancer Taskforce recommendations. £200 million was committed in transformation funding to support Alliances with a particular focus on driving improvements in early diagnosis and quality of life over this and the next financial year. Cancer Alliances are starting to receive Transformation funding in phases over the course of this year based on the readiness of systems to take on the transformation work and the strength of their plans. The full investment in delivering the Cancer Taskforce strategy is set out in the One Year On report, and most recently in the Progress Report for 2016/17 published in October 2017 and is available at the following link: