A charity warns that patients in Scotland and Wales are losing out when it comes to accessing new cancer drugs.

Scotland should consider a cancer drugs fund to help patients pay for treatment that is only available south of the Border, the Conservative leader in the Scottish Parliament

Most cancer patients in England and Wales are still paying for prescriptions despite the fact they can get them free, UK government figures show today.

The Scottish Government has come under fire over the treatment of cancer patients, with claims that sufferers in Scotland are three times less likely to get medicines than tho

All prescriptions are free in Wales. Scotland and Northern Ireland will abolish prescription charges soon. From April 1st this year Cancer patients, people under 19 and over 60 and those suffering from a list of illnesses (which probably seemed sensible in 1968) don't have to pay for their prescriptions in England. However there is plenty of evidence that many poor people do not take medicati...

A survey of cancer patients, carers and professionals suggests Scotland's NHS is failing those with the disease.

To be abolished in Northern Ireland. Already gone in Wales. And on the way out in Scotland. No one over 60 pays them anyway, nor does anyone who is not working, such as those who are too ill to work. Cancer patients are about to be made exempt, too. Yet Brown will not declare for total abolition. You know what you have to do.

Scaremongering knows no bounds in the Labour election handbook. LABOUR has become embroiled in a row about the use of personal data after sending cancer patients alarmist mailshots saying their lives could be at risk under a Conservative government.Sending political propaganda that suggests the other party could kill cancer patients to cancer patients is about as low as you can go. Remind me again...

Alan Johnson MP, Labour's Health Secretary, today urged cancer patients to take advantage of Labour's free prescription scheme, and condemned Tory threats to scrap life-saving cancer treatment targets. From this week, thousands of cancer patients will get free prescriptions thanks to a pledge made last September by Gordon Brown, Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party. The Labour G...

David Cameron was repeatedly questioned on the effect of welfare reforms on cancer patients, but he said they would not lose any money.