How many people cannot get the drugs they believe they need on the NHS?About 15,000 patients ask their primary care trust to pay for extra drugs every year, but many more probably do not even try. Why can't the NHS pay for these drugs?These are generally new drugs, which come on the market at very high prices. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice), which decides whi...

The Labour Government has finalised a deal with the pharmaceutical industry that will allow more patients to benefit from a wider range of drug treatments at a fair cost to the NHS. The flexible pricing scheme agreed will cut the price of many drugs to the NHS while encouraging continued innovation in the industry &# allowing patients to have faster access to new medicines which are clinically and...

Here’s how The Times is reporting the story: Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, will set out today why he believes patients should be allowed to pay privately for drugs to “top up” NHS care. The Liberal Democrats will seek to outflank both Labour and the Tories after patients who bought life-extending cancer drugs privately were

King's Fund say current NHS refusal to treat patients who buy 'top-up' drugs privately is 'untenable'

Kidney cancer patients will have to wait months for the NHS drugs rationing body to decide if they can have new drugs after guidance was delayed.

Another day, another terrible story about cancer drugs being denied to NHS patients not because their medical effectivenss is in any doubt - there is no question that these drugs prolong the lives of patients - but because they are not cost effective. The ruthless logic of rationed healthcare could scarcely be made more explicit. And let's be clear about this: it is perfectly l...

NHS gives go-ahead to experimental treatments for hundreds of patients who have failed to respond to conventional cures

Terminally ill patients will be given expensive new drugs after the NHS rationing body was today ordered to place more value on the last precious months of life.

The government’s decision to allow cancer patients to buy private drugs will mean a two-tier NHS, says Karen Reissmann

Patients denied expensive cancer drugs on the NHS are threatening to sue their local healthcare trusts for refunds.