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Thousands of patients suffering from cancer and other serious illnesses are being denied the drugs they need from the NHS, according to a report.
Even though the treatments have been approved by the health service rationing body, at least 14,000 patients a year are not receiving them.
As many as one in three of those suffering from some types of cancer are going without medication that could extend their lives, the figures show.
Experts said the report, from the Health and Social Care Information Centre, a government quango that provides NHS statistics and analysis of trends in health and social care, exposed an ?endemic and disastrous postcode lottery? of care within the health service.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/nhs/10588291/Lottery-of-NHS-drugs-punishes-the-dying.html
Even though the treatments have been approved by the health service rationing body, at least 14,000 patients a year are not receiving them.
As many as one in three of those suffering from some types of cancer are going without medication that could extend their lives, the figures show.
Experts said the report, from the Health and Social Care Information Centre, a government quango that provides NHS statistics and analysis of trends in health and social care, exposed an ?endemic and disastrous postcode lottery? of care within the health service.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/nhs/10588291/Lottery-of-NHS-drugs-punishes-the-dying.html