An article published in The Daily Telegraph on Friday July 31 2015 discusses the availability of medication through the NHS. This was and still is one of The Trevor Collins Foundation’s primary objectives. If medication is not available, we will arrange funding immediately, and then go in search of a suitable sponsor – which could be a Primary Care Trust, a pharmaceutical company or a local business or community appeal.
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH FRIDAY JULY 31 2015‘CUT DRUG FUNDS AND IT WILL BE LIKE DARK AGES’
Britain will be thrown back into the Dark Ages if further restrictions are placed on life-extending drugs for one of the most common types of cancer, leading doctors have warned.
A national panel is considering which cancer treatments should be funded by the NHS, as part of efforts to cut a spiralling drugs bill.
Earlier this year, it withdrew funding for more than 20 drugs, including three treatments for bowel cancer that were being given to more than 3,000 people a year. In a letter to the Daily Telegraph, 15 leading oncologists have raised fears that other drugs for the disease are to be “delisted”, cutting thousands of lives short.
Bowel cancer is the second biggest cancer killer in the UK, with 16,000 deaths a year, and the fourth most common form of cancer in the UK, with 40,000 diagnoses annually.
Prof William P Stewart, from the Leicester Royal Infirmary, Dr Mark Saunders, from the Christie Hospital, Manchester, and Dr Rob Glynne-Jones, from Mount Vernon Hospital are among 15 bowel cancer consultants opposing such moves.
It would be a travesty to go back to the Dark Ages of constantly having to say “sorry” to patients when we cannot provide the best internationally accepted care for them,” they write.
Usually, a patient cannot wait for a funding argument to progress – which is why we will step in no questions asked, This could mean the difference between an early demise or the extension of life WITH QUALITY OF LIFE.
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Brenda Collins