Individual Patient Funding Requests (IPFR)
Every year Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board receives money from the Welsh Government to pay for healthcare for those that reside in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf and is entitled to NHS Care. Our job is to get the best value for this money by spending it wisely on your behalf.
Demand for healthcare is growing. New and often expensive treatments are becoming available almost every week. Out priority is to pay for those treatments that are clinically effective, can demonstrate that they improve people’s health and offer good value for money.
As a result, there are some treatments that we do not routinely provide and these fall into 2 main categories:
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Treatments that are new, novel, developing or unproven and are not normally available within the Health Boards routine schedule of services and treatments (for example, a request for a cancer drug that has yet to be approved for routine use within NHS Wales for that particular condition)
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Treatments that are only provided in certain clinical circumstances whereby not all patients will be eligible in accordance with the clinical criteria for that treatment (for example, a request for varicose vein treatment)
Your GP or hospital consultant can ask us, on your behalf, to fund a treatment that we would not normally provide for you. This is called making an Individual Patient Funding Request (IPFR), and NHS Wales follows a clear policy on how to make decisions on these requests.
Submit an IPFR
An application can only be made by an NHS clinician
The All Wales Policy, Making Decisions on Individual Patient Funding Requests (IPFR), clearly sets out the process for dealing with such requests and how an application can be made.
Our preferred method of funding request submissions is by IPFR Electronic Submission. Clinicians will be required to register for an account via the following link;
Travel costs
Please be aware that the IPFR Policy does not cover healthcare travel costs.
Information on patient eligibility for healthcare travel costs to receive NHS treatment under the care of a consultant, can be found on the Welsh Government website