Individual Funding Request Policy

NHS Leeds is a primary care trust (PCT). Our role is to plan and fund (commission) healthcare services for the people of Leeds. We have limited resources, so we need to make sure that we make the best use of our budget so that people living in Leeds can access the healthcare services they need. Each year we identify our priorities and agree a plan for the following year.

The Individual Funding Request (IFR) process is in place for situations where the proposed treatment/drugs are:

• new;
• not covered in existing contracts; and
• expensive or rare.

Decisions on paying for treatments/drugs that are not normally funded are made by one of the three panels listed below.

• Non Commissioned Activity Panel. 
• Non-NICE, Non–Tariff Drugs (NNNT) Panel. NICE is the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. 
• Aesthetic (cosmetic) surgery and other related procedures panel.

You can download (easy-read) information leaflets on the Individual Funding Request process as well as the work of three panels by using the related downloads option at the bottom of this page.  Feel free to get in touch if you have any additional questions not covered on these leaflets.

Related pages on this site

Commissioning StatementsThis section provides details on how NHS Leeds commissions (funds) treatments not routinely offered on the NHS. includes information on individual funding requests.High cost drugsThis page provides details on how NHS Leeds commissions (funds) high cost drugs and what our criteria is.Interventional proceduresThis page provides details on how NHS Leeds commissions (funds) interventional procedures and what our criteria is.

Related downloads

| Individual funding request process information leaflet.pdf (0.09 MB)

| Non commissioned activity requests information leaflet.pdf (0.09 MB)

| Non-NICE non-tariff drugs information leaflet.pdf (0.09 MB)

| Individual Funding Requests Policy.pdf (0.15 MB)

| NHS Leeds cosmetic interventions available on the NHS.pdf (0.35 MB)

| Non Commissioned Activity Framework.pdf (0.08 MB)

| Non NICE Non Tariff drugs framework.pdf (0.08 MB)

| Cosmetic treatments information leaflet.pdf (0.09 MB)

| Cosmetic treatments available on the NHS.pdf (0.04 MB)

| New cosmetic exceptions referral form.pdf (0.06 MB)

| Clinical Interventions targeted to achieve maximum health benefit.pdf (0.15 MB)

| Complementary and Alternative Therapies Framework.pdf (0.24 MB)

| NHS Leeds use of acupuncture.pdf (0.07 MB)

| NHS Leeds use of Botulinum toxin.pdf (0.14 MB)