Tagged: Cancer Drugs Fund

Focus on Disability - For Disabled People, the Elderly and their Carers in the UK

13th January 2015

Anger – 21 Cancer Drugs are Axed

“Not much point scientists finding treatments that end up axed and archived” Thousands of cancer patients will be denied life-prolonging medication after health chiefs decided to axe 21 drugs deemed to expensive for the NHS....

Focus on Disability / Health

9th January 2015

Fury as Fund Cuts Six Breast Cancer Drugs

Six breast cancer drugs are to be made unavailable to NHS patients – sparking furious condemnation from campaigners, patients and doctors. Thousands of women in advanced stages of the disease are set to be denied...