Information about the cost of providing herceptin for breast cancer and alimta for mesothelioma to individual patients is not centrally collected.
However, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has assessed that the cost of providing herceptin for early breast cancer is approximately £24,500 per patient and the cost of providing alimta for mesothelioma is approximately £8,000 per patient. Costs may vary in different settings because of negotiated procurement discounts.
Information on the number of people receiving treatment for mesothelioma is not centrally collected. Information on count of finished consultant episodes where the primary diagnosis was mesothelioma for primary care trusts in the south west of England is provided in the following table.
PCT name Total episodes Bath and North East Somerset PCT 50 Bournemouth Teaching PCT 40 Bristol North PCT 0 Bristol South and West PCT 71 Central Cornwall PCT 89 Cheltenham and Tewkesbury PCT 133 Cotswold and vale PCT 2— Kennet and North Wiltshire PCT 0 East Devon PCT 2— Exeter PCT 57 Mendip PCT 2— Mid Devon PCT 2— North and East Cornwall PCT 2— North Devon PCT 13 North Dorset PCT 0 North Somerset PCT 25 Plymouth Teaching PCT 59 Poole PCT 12 Somerset Coast PCT 0 South and East Dorset PCT 2— South Gloucestershire PCT 57 South hams and West Devon PCT 2— South Somerset PCT 12 South West Dorset PCT 9 South Wiltshire PCT 21 Swindon PCT 9 Taunton Deane PCT 11 Teignbridge PCT 0 Torbay PCT 15 West of Cornwall PCT 2— West Gloucestershire PCT 0 West Wiltshire PCT 0 1 The ICD-10 codes used in this analysis were as follows: C45 Mesothelioma D19 Benign neoplasm of mesothelial tissue. 2 Low numbers: Due to reasons of confidentiality, figures between 1 and 5 have been suppressed. Notes: 1. Finished consultant episode (FCE): An FCE is defined as a period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. Please note that the figures do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one episode of care within the year. 2. Ungrossed data: Figures have not been adjusted for shortfalls in data (i.e. the data are ungrossed). 3. Diagnosis (primary diagnosis): The primary diagnosis is the first of up to 14 (seven prior to 2002-03) diagnosis fields in the hospital episode statistics (HES) dataset and provides the main reason why the patient was in hospital. Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), The Information Centre for health and social care.