Supplementary memorandum submitted by
the Department of Health
EXPENDITURE ON CANCER RESEARCH
At your Committee's hearing on 12 December,
I undertook to let you have a note about expenditure on cancer
research in the UK, comparing the Government's with that of the
charities.
Getting valid and accurate figures in this area
is not without difficulty. For example, as you will appreciate,
it is often impossible to distinguish between basic or biological
research that is relevant to cancer from that relevant to other
disease processes. And it can be difficult, for charities as well
as the NHS, to differentiate between costs attributable to research
and those attributable to services.
I have, though, attempted to make a realistic
assessment of the present position. I have drawn on various sources
for the charities. I have: taken information from web sites and
newsletters; used the Association of Medical Research Charities
handbook; and made other enquiries by telephone and email to the
relevant charities.
In all cases I have used the latest or highest
figure where there is more than one, and I have rounded up wherever
appropriate. I have tried to capture as much data as possible,
but it may be that some of the smaller cancer charities have escaped.
Assuming they have, I think it unlikely that their combined expenditure
would be anything near £1m, but I have added that as a nominal
amount. I am fairly confident that a figure in the region of £180
million is a good approximation of the charities' annual expenditure
on cancer research.
For the Government's expenditure in 2000-01,
I have started with the Department of Health figure, which is
£83.8 million. As I explained to the Committee, this figure
includes not only directly commissioned projects but also NHS
support funding for research conducted by the charities and the
research councils. To this I have added amounts from my opposite
numbers in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
I have then included estimates of expenditure
provided by the Medical Research Council, by the Higher Education
Funding Council for England, and by the Office of Science &
Technology in respect of the other research councils. On this
basis, the Government total is £190 million, which is significantly
more than the figure (of £112 million for 1998-99) that the
Department provided and the Committee quoted in its Report "Cancer
ResearchA Fresh Look" of 25 July 2000.
I think we should all treat these figures with
caution, for the reasons I have given. Even so, I would suggest
that it is perfectly reasonable to say that the Government's expenditure
on cancer research is equal to that of the charities.
Sir John Pattison
Director of Research, Analysis and Information
December 2001
34 CANCER NETWORKS
Region |
| Cancer Network | Clinical Lead for Research
| Lead Clinician | Network Co-ordinator
|
North West | 3 | Lancashire & South Cumbria
| To be identified | Dr Graham Read
| |
| 1 | Merseyside & Cheshire
| Dr Peter Clarke | Dr Ged Corcoran
| |
| 3 | Greater Manchester
| To be identified | Dr Petula Chatterlee
| |
Northern & Yorkshire | 3 |
Cancer Care Alliance of Teeside, S Durham and North Yorkshire
| To be identified | Dr P Dunlop
| |
| 2 | Humber & Yorkshire Coast
| Prof Lindsay Turnbull | Prof M J Lind
| |
| 1 | Northern
| Dr Philip Atherton/
Prof Reg Hall |
Prof Reg Hall | |
| 2 | Yorkshire
| Dr Matt Seymour | Prof Mark Baker
| |
Trent | 1 | North Trent
| Prof Rob Coleman | Prof B W Hancock
| Mr Roger Burkinshaw |
| 2 | Mid Trent
| Prof James Carmichael | Prof J D Hardcastle
| |
| 4 | Derby/Burton
| | Dr Vaughan Keeley |
|
| 3 | Leicestershire
| To be identified | Dr Albert Benghiat
| |
Eastern | 3 | Mid Anglia
| To be identified | Dr David Blainey
| |
| 1 | West Anglia
| Dr Pippa Corrie | Dr M V Williams
| Dr Roy Harris |
| 2 | South Essex
| Dr Anne Robinson | Dr I Linehan
| |
| 3 | Norfolk & Waveney
| Dr Martin | Dr Simon G Crocker
| |
| 4 | Mount Vernon
| | Dr Jane Halpin |
|
London | 3 | South East London
| Dr Peter Harper | Dr Elizabeth Sawicka
| |
| 1 | West London
| Prof Charles Coombes/Dr Kathy Binysh | Prof Charles Coombes
| Ms Pim Parker |
| 2 | North London
| Dr Jonathan Ledermann | Prof Tony Goldstone
| |
| 3 | NE London
| To be identified | Prof Adrian Newland
| |
| 1 | South West London
| Prof Alan Horwich | Dr Gill Ross
| Ms Rachel Gresty-Bayes |
South East | 2 | Sussex
| Dr David Bloomfield | Dr Geoffrey Newman
| |
| 1 | Central South Coast
| Prof Peter Johnson | Mr James Smallwood
| Ms Jocelyn Walters |
| 2 | Four Counties
| Dr Claire Blesing | Dr Jane Barrett
| Ms Susan Palmer |
| 4 | Kent |
| Prof Roger James |
|
| 3 | Surrey |
To be identified | Prof Hillary Thomas
| |
South West | 1 | Avon, Somerset, Wiltshire
| Dr Steven Falk | Dr Jonathan Sheffield
| Mr Paul Dillon |
| 3 | 3 Counties
| To be identified | Dr Roger Owen
| |
| 3 | Dorset |
To be identified | Mr Robert Talbot
| |
| 2 | Peninsula
| Dr Nigel Bailey | Dr Martin Cooper
| Mr Glyn Rees |
West Midlands | 3 | Arden
| | Dr Tom Goodfellow |
|
| 3 | North West Midlands
| | Dr Nick Phin |
|
| 1 | Black Country
| Dr David Ferry | Dr D Murphy
| Ms Linda Price |
| 2 | Pan Birmingham
| Dr Chris Poole | Dr Don Milligan
| |
1 = first wave 1 April 2001, 2 = second wave 1 October 2001,
3 = core post funding, 4 = remain unready.
|