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The number of cancer treatments available to patients has been halved on a new national list.
The move ? described as ?alarming? and ?a step backwards? by campaigners ? could mean many new patients are unable to benefit from the Government?s flagship Cancer Drugs Fund.
The ?200million-a-year idea, launched in April 2011, was intended to provide life-extending help for sufferers and has led to more than 25,000 patients in England getting drugs which are not available on the NHS because they are not approved by NICE, the rationing body.
But the number of drugs available through the fund has now been cut from 50 to 27 by NHS England.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...pproved-list-patients-HALVED-NHS-reforms.html
The move ? described as ?alarming? and ?a step backwards? by campaigners ? could mean many new patients are unable to benefit from the Government?s flagship Cancer Drugs Fund.
The ?200million-a-year idea, launched in April 2011, was intended to provide life-extending help for sufferers and has led to more than 25,000 patients in England getting drugs which are not available on the NHS because they are not approved by NICE, the rationing body.
But the number of drugs available through the fund has now been cut from 50 to 27 by NHS England.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...pproved-list-patients-HALVED-NHS-reforms.html