The wife of a leading figure in the campaign to end the ban on NHS patients paying privately for life-prolonging cancer drugs died from the disease just two weeks before Alan Johnson, the health secretary, announced a U-turn on the policy.
Earlier this year Gordon Matthews, an NHS trauma consultant, persuaded doctors’ leaders to back the campaign to end the practice by which hospitals withdrew state care from patients who bought drugs.
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