Kieran Lamb
It has taken an inexcusably long time, but last week, the Government finally recognised that it was both cruel and unfair to deny NHS patients who decided to buy themselves drugs that the NHS would not purchase for them. Linda O'Boyle is now dead, but she became the focus of the media campaign that forced the Government to change its mind. Her life was prolonged by the use of the anti-cancer drug Cetuximab. She paid for it because the NHS would not do so. She was denied NHS care as a consequence, and had to pay another £11,000 to private hospitals for chemotherapy and nursing.
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