From: Government and charity funding of cancer research: public preferences and choices
Scenario | Amount spent on medical research in the United Kingdom each year (£m) | Description | |||
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Funding from government | Funding from charities | ||||
Cancer research | Other medical research | Cancer research | Other medical research | ||
1 | No information provided to respondent | Scenario included to capture respondents’ preferences in the absence of information about medical research funding levels | |||
2 | 150 | 2,350 | 350 | 650 | Realistic estimates of actual spending on medical research |
3 | 50 | 2,450 | 350 | 650 | Government reduces its spending on cancer research and spends that money instead on other medical research |
4 | 50 | 2,350 | 350 | 650 | Government reduces its spending on cancer research; spending on other medical research remains unchanged |
5 | 250 | 2,250 | 350 | 650 | Government increases its spending on cancer research and reduces its spending on other medical research by the same amount |