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Patients asked to pay thousands for cancer drug trial
Cancer patients will be asked to pay thousands of pounds to test new drug treatments under a controversial trial. Although the four drugs being used cost only a few pence each, the thousand patients in the trial will be asked to pay £450 to be included and £250 for each monitoring consultation every three months […]
High Street chemists who charge the NHS £300 for skin creams that should cost £12
Sickening rip off sees NHS paying many times over the odds for products Countless patients with debilitating skin conditions are denied treatment Toby Butt, now 12, has lived with agonising eczema all this life Has been one of the lucky ones, getting a cheap and effective treatment Many patients with severe eczema, psoriasis or […]
Scandal of patients denied 5p pill that shrinks cancer: Last week we revealed NHS pays crazily high prices for life extending drugs. But the madness doesn’t end there
Sickening rip-off sees patients not being offered effective ‘old’ treatments Instead, the emphasis is on the latest, often eyewateringly expensive drugs Cancer patient Mary Nike, 58, from Brewood, was treated with a 5p pill Within seven weeks of starting on a new treatment, the tumour in Mary Nike’s left breast had shrunk from 1½ […]
Sickening rip off: Smaller than a matchstick, this is a year’s dose of a life extending blood cancer drug. The NHS pays £115,000 for it – yet it costs just £100 to make
Mani Coulter, 42, from Caversham, Berks, had only months to live in 2012 Became one of first people in Britain to be given Kadcyla for breast cancer Three years on, she’s convinced the £90,000-a-year treatment saved her life Mani Coulter is testimony to the wonders of modern medicine. When she became one of the […]
Dying beg to become medical guinea pigs
The Sunday Times 14 April 2013 A COALITION of influential medical figures is to spearhead a campaign to allow the terminally ill access to unlicensed experimental drugs. The Right to Try campaign has been inspired by Les Halpin, a millionaire who is suffering from motor neurone disease (MND), a degenerative condition of the nervous […]