§ Mr. Jim CunninghamTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how much of the recently financed extra money for cancer care will be targeted in(a) the West Midlands and (b) Coventry. [144973]
§ Yvette CooperMy right hon. Friend the Secretary of State recently announced a national investment of £450 million earmarked for cancer and heart services which will help to raise standards of care and cut waiting times for treatment.
Each health authority, in consultation with National Health Service trusts, will need to draw up an agreed policy for cancer services and report on their plans to use the money through the service and financial framework process.
§ Mr. Jim CunninghamTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how much of the recently announced extra money for cancer care will be targeted at specific forms of cancer; and which research institutes and sites of excellence will benefit from the additional money. [144974]
§ Yvette CooperThe NHS Plan announced that health authorities will receive an additional £280 million in 2001–02, £407 million in 2002–03 and £570 million by 2003–04 for improving cancer services as set out in the National Health Service cancer plan.
The plan sets out the priorities for cancer services including improved prevention measures; increasing the cancer work force; reducing waiting times for diagnosis and treatment; introducing the most effective treatments (including implementing recommendations by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence on anti-cancer drugs and implementing evidence-based guidance on 157W effective service delivery); updating cancer equipment, and reorganising delivery of care. The aim is that, as the plan is implemented, patients with all forms of cancer will experience prompt access to treatment and care based on up-to-date evidence. Early action will include implementation of recent and forthcoming guidance on upper gastrointestinal, urological and haematological cancers; new waiting times targets to ensure rapid access to treatment for people with breast cancer, childhood cancers, testicular cancer and leukaemia; and the start of the roll out of the breast screening programme to women aged 65–70.
All centres of research excellence will benefit from the extra money announced for cancer care. In addition by 2003, we will be investing an additional £20 million each year in the new National Cancer Research Network
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Health authority 1999–2000 allocation per unweighted head of population £ 2000–01 allocation per unweighted head of population £ Increase between 1999–2000 and 2000–01 Percentage Avon 580 639 10.1 Barking and Havering 658 726 10.4 Barnet 637 690 8.3 Barnsley 670 733 9.4 Bedfordshire 554 608 9.7 Berkshire 530 583 10.0 Bexley and Greenwich 681 748 9.9 Birmingham 658 724 10.0 Bradford 642 707 10.2 Brent and Harrow 670 736 9.9 Bromley 613 670 9.2 Buckinghamshire 524 575 9.7 Bury and Rochdale 649 721 11.0 Calderdale and Kirklees 641 696 8.6 Cambridgeshire1 — 595 n/a Cambridge and Huntingdon1 517 — n/a Camden and Islington 856 953 11.3 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 647 702 8.5 County Durham 677 745 10.1 Coventry 625 690 10.4 Croydon 606 663 9.3 Doncaster 671 734 9.4 Dorset 640 694 8.3 Dudley 593 650 9.7 Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow 698 764 9.5 East and North Hertfordshire 558 611 9.5 East Kent 667 726 8.9 East Lancashire 683 749 9.6 East London and The City 775 860 11.0 East Norfolk1 602 — n/a East Riding 616 677 10.0 East Surrey 596 653 9.7 East Sussex Brighton and Hove 680 738 8.5 Enfield and Haringey 683 746 9.1 Gateshead and South Tyneside 713 777 8.9 Gloucestershire 595 645 8.4 Herefordshire 591 643 8.9 Hillingdon 627 683 8.9 Isle of Wight 730 793 8.6 Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster 730 815 11.6 Kingston and Richmond 621 680 9.5 Lambeth Southwark and Lewisham 779 868 11.5 Leeds 638 701 9.8 Leicestershire 557 611 9.7 Lincolnshire 615 664 7.9 Liverpool 747 814 8.9 Manchester 759 830 9.3 Merton Sutton and Wandsworth 670 734 9.5 (NCRN) and an extra £4 million each year on prostate cancer research. The NCRN will, among many other things, further integrate research and cancer care.