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Should all cancer drugs be free on the NHS?

UP to 1,300 cancer patients have been condemned to an early grave after they were denied treatment, shocking figures reveal.

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COR

01.09.08, 6:12am

The Government WONT give a monkeys, mainly because they will be covered by BUPA or other private cover.

They won't need to be in an NHS hospital if they become ill.

No doubt the greedy b*ggers in Westminster would stick the cost on their expenses anyway.

Life as an MP is a 'win, win' situation methinks.

• Posted by: SandieL • Report Comment

SHAMEFUL..

29.08.08, 3:23am

we are the highest taxed country in the world and when on occasion we fall ill and need a bit of the fortune we paid into the country back.. its a slap in the face. in contrast to the moneys wasted by the government in Iraq.. I am speechless at the selfishness of the people governing us.

• Posted by: cor • Report Comment

ALL DRUGS SHOULD BE

20.08.08, 2:42am

of course they should. Would any Socialist tell you otherwise?

• Posted by: brusselssprouts • Report Comment

GORDON GIVING MORE - WE CAN NOT AFFORD TO GIVE

16.08.08, 2:46pm

And again Drop Jaw is giving 2 million away, this time to Georgia. I think its about the UK keep some here.

Russia did the damage let them pay.

Drop Jaw should start to look after the poor of England, It’s disgraceful. Cancer sufferers in England are being denied life saving/life prolonging drugs because they are too expensive, yet this poxy Government gives 2M to Georgia.

I would like to know what on earth is that money supposed to be used for. Are other countries giving aid? A few Russian oligarchs could give that amount without noticing it.....

• Posted by: Jgee • Report Comment

OF COURSE THEY SHOULD......FOR BRITISH CITIZENS!

14.08.08, 10:32pm

What amazes me is that non-British people who have contributed nothing to this country get free medicines regardless.....do I need to say anymore?

This government should be ashamed that they tax illness in this way and yet we subsidise Scotland and Wales for their free prescriptions....don't the people of this country realise that this government holds them with contempt and virement.....wake up everyone they care not for anyone but themsleves!

How do these people live with themsleves?

• Posted by: RealIstic08 • Report Comment

CANCER DRUGS FOR ALL

14.08.08, 2:41pm

Yes, definitely. If the drugs are there then all cancer sufferers should be allowed them. If you have paid N.I. all your life you are entitled to them. It seems once you turn 65 nobody wants to know, the government would be obliged if all people over 65 just snuffed it and save them the cost of issuing life saving drugs. Blair started it Brown is continuing it. This country has had it.

• Posted by: lorna69 • Report Comment

OF COURSE THEY SHOULD...

14.08.08, 11:59am

...the NHS could save the money that they are spending on TV adverts telling us to eat 3 fruits a day...

• Posted by: Disgruntled • Report Comment

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PS MAG05

12.08.08, 10:21pm

My case wasn't for cancer like your husbands, but I was still denied treatment.

I am trying to get over the private treatment no NHS aftercare situation now.

• Posted by: SandieL • Report Comment

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MAG05

12.08.08, 10:19pm

Don't take this lying down. Fight the local PCT. Some people do that and win.

Go and see Blunkett. He is your MP isn't he. Plague his life out, and get him to send letters on your behalf.

If your local PCT has meetings to discuss their funding etc., turn up and ask them pointedly what they are goint to do about your husbands treatment. They don't like being challenged when they are having meetings to sing their own praises.

I did exactly that, challenged them, and my case is being re-negioated.

Good luck. I hope your husband gets his treatment. Make sure you rattle their cages and don't take no for an answer from them.

• Posted by: SandieL • Report Comment

CANCER CARE IN CHAOS

12.08.08, 9:54pm

My husband has lung cancer and has had all treatment available except tarceva which NICE deemed he can not have, because of cost we have a letter to this end.
What right has a board of people who no nothing of my husbands case and thus condem him to die. Were is the justice, he is 75 years young worked all his life paid into the state and this is what we get rejected and refused.Dont get me wrong cannot fault the doctors and nurses at the northern general palative care but there hands are tired. thankyou for fighting the cause. It may be to late for my husband but it may help others.

m brooks

• Posted by: mag05 • Report Comment

WITHIN CERTAIN LIMITS, YES.

12.08.08, 7:59pm

I don't know if "treehugger" is really a member of that much maligned group, but that comment re. foreigners coming over and milking the service is very valid, to me. To all members of the British public who are paid-up members of the great taxation club, drugs of such importance should be available right across the board. Foreigners outside the EU no, they should be charged up front for all treatments. All this has been thrashed out countless times, so it's a policy that should be implemented automatically, but this insipid gov. we have only listen to the pompous little voices in their own heads.

• Posted by: bluenote • Report Comment

SHOULD ALL CANCER DRUGS BE FREE ON THE NHS?

12.08.08, 12:54pm

NO it should only be given to citizens who have contributed for at least 20 year into the sydtem , then we may stop health tourists

• Posted by: treehugger • Report Comment

ITS A SAD WORLD, WHEN.........!

12.08.08, 1:46am

We withdraw medical treatment, from a kidney cancer patient, (or for that matter any patient) because it costs around £30000 per person, per year. For some reason its deemed as not cost affective.

Especially when were paying £24000 per year, to furnish each and every MPs second home.

Perhaps if, MPs decided to donate £24000 a year to the NHS, it would only leave a shortfall of £6000.

Many families dont even earn £24000 a year, some dont even have a home, let alone a second home. No doubt MPs daily expenses, are more than a pensioner gets in a week.

Its obscene, that were spending more money to keep a prisoner, who wants to die alive, than we are on keeping those alive, who dont want to die.

yes, its a sad world.

• Posted by: Declanrowe • Report Comment

SHOULD ALL CANCER DRUGS BE FREE ON THE NHS?

11.08.08, 4:59pm

Further to my previous post.

Regarding all the current hype regarding the perils of high cholesterol and statins the drug companies have taken a leaf out of the insurance industry training manual. You have to sell a problem before you can sell a cure.

• Posted by: ricardo • Report Comment

CANCER PATIENTS DENIED TREATMENT

11.08.08, 4:47pm

It is absolute ridiculous and a disgrace that the NHS can crreate a postcode lottery with cancer treatment - the public nationwide, has donated untold millions to Cancer research ever since the begging bowl came out which must have been for over forty years now. How dare they stop treatment for sufferers - I have lost my own father and all his relations to cancer, also my three best friends in the past five years - how do we know they received the best possible treatment with what is going on at the moment - has it been happening for years without us knowing it!!! We'll never know.

Best regards

• Posted by: llaclover • Report Comment

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