Cancer: Health Services
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the average cost of (a) bowel and (b) all cancer care at stage (i) 1, (ii), 2, (iii) 3 and (iv) 4 for patients referred by the NHS in England.
Answered by Andrew Gwynne
There is currently no available data on the average cost, broken down into cost per stage, of bowel cancer, or all cancer care. However, the following table shows the cost of cancer treatment in National Health Service trusts, reported over the last five years:
Year | Cost |
2019/20 | £3,800,000,000 |
2020/21 | £4,100,000,000 |
2021/22 | £4,300,000,000 |
2022/23 | £5,600,000,000 |
2023/24 | Not available |
Source: the data is based on Patient Level Costing submissions from NHS trusts, and other data submissions
Note: the data shows the cost of activities recorded against primary cancer ICD10 codes.
This will not include all costs associated with cancer treatment if these are not recorded or linked in the data, for example some diagnostics. It excludes primary care, independent sector, non-NHS activities, and data from some trusts who were excluded from the cost submission for underlying data issues.
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