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A GRANDMOTHER has told how she is moving to England to access a cancer drug denied her on the NHS in Scotland.
Maureen Fleming, 63, has been refused treatment with cetuximab despite backing from her consultant who said the drug would help stop the spread of her bowel cancer.
She and her husband, Ian, 65, are now planning to move to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, after being told by doctors she would receive the drug free on the NHS there.
The couple, from Bonhill, West Dunbartonshire, watched from the public gallery at Holyrood yesterday as her case was highlighted at First Minister's Questions.
During clashes in the chamber, Johann Lamont, the Scottish Labour leader, told Alex Salmond that Scotland was "in danger of exporting health refugees".
http://www.heraldscotland.com/polit...t-move-to-england-to-get-cancer-drug.21068606
Maureen Fleming, 63, has been refused treatment with cetuximab despite backing from her consultant who said the drug would help stop the spread of her bowel cancer.
She and her husband, Ian, 65, are now planning to move to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, after being told by doctors she would receive the drug free on the NHS there.
The couple, from Bonhill, West Dunbartonshire, watched from the public gallery at Holyrood yesterday as her case was highlighted at First Minister's Questions.
During clashes in the chamber, Johann Lamont, the Scottish Labour leader, told Alex Salmond that Scotland was "in danger of exporting health refugees".
http://www.heraldscotland.com/polit...t-move-to-england-to-get-cancer-drug.21068606
