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Cancer Drugs Fund
Cancer patients who might benefit from treatment with drugs that are not otherwise available have an opportunity to access funding from the £34.2m made available in 2011/12 for patients in the South of England. Patients should talk to the specialist doctor who is treating them. Applications must come from NHS specialist cancer doctors who can make applications to the fund on behalf of their patients, where other local sources of funding are not available.
Acceptance may be automatic where the treatment proposed meets a set of criteria agreed by local cancer specialists and pharmacists. Other treatments may need to be considered by a panel. Panels consist of doctors and sometimes other professionals who specialise in treating cancer, putting doctors in charge of deciding how the fund is spent for their patients locally.
More information for patients, the public and specialists who wish to apply can be found on the following websites:
South West
Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire
Kent, Surrey, Sussex
Patients who are registered with a GP in the Milton Keynes area are now served by the East Midlands Cancer Drugs Fund that is the responsibility of NHS Midlands and East SHA Cluster.
