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Some life-saving cancer medicines are likely to be removed from the list of expensive drugs paid for out of a special fund set up the prime minster.
The Cancer Drugs Fund was designed to give patients in England access to effective treatments deemed too expensive for hospitals to fund.
But now the fund will introduce price restrictions for the first time and 42 drugs are being reassessed.
Cancer charities have expressed "deep concern" at the move.
Drugs have to be cost effective for the NHS to make them routinely available.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30022025
The Cancer Drugs Fund was designed to give patients in England access to effective treatments deemed too expensive for hospitals to fund.
But now the fund will introduce price restrictions for the first time and 42 drugs are being reassessed.
Cancer charities have expressed "deep concern" at the move.
Drugs have to be cost effective for the NHS to make them routinely available.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30022025