Cancer

(asked on 26th February 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate the average cost to the NHS of treating each case of (a) cervical, (b) vaginal, (c) vulval, (d) penile, (e) anal, (f) oropharyngeal, (g) base of tongue, (h) tonsil and (i) laryngeal cancer.


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Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 5th March 2015

The Department does not collect treatment costs on individual cancers or other diagnoses. It does however collect reference cost annually from National Health Service trusts and NHS foundation trusts in England, which can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/nhs-reference-costs

It should be noted that reference costs only look at the costs for individual elements of treatment e.g. an admitted episode of care rather than the cost of a whole pathway of treatment.

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