Is it fair that "NICE" the health watchdog, should deny us medeciness?
We the English are denied medecines by NICE(what a dreadful set of initials for these awful people) that the Scots and Welsh take for granted. The Welsh also get free prescriptions, while NICE say it is too expensive for English people to have drugs for cancer.
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Yes it is fair. Or rather, it is not, but it is the least unfair of all the options that the NHS faces.
Sorry to say it, but we pay for our health service to provide treatment, and that treatment costs money. Because of that, the treatment has to be rationed.
The availability of drugs denied by NICE is not necessarily present to all in Wales and Scotland. They have a different way of assessing the medications.
The only way of making drugs like that more available is either to force drug companies to lower prices, or to raise taxes to pay for the drugs. And even then, there will still have to be rationing.
Are they trying to get us all to move to Wales maybe?
i'm being denied a drug that will prevent me from a wheelchair and going blind,why.
It is unfortunate that the English health system is so overloaded with requests for prescription drugs that it can no longer cope.
No it isn't examples are cancer treatments,Alzheimer's treatments, eye treatments, perhaps gordon can tell us what happens to all the money that we pay into the national health goes!
No its not fair we are being discriminated against. If theses stupid Politicians would stop giving our money away to every foreigner with his or her hand out we would not be having this discussion
No it's not right, they are the Institute for clinical excellence and unless I see proof that these drugs - that work in Scotland and Wales, which is why they are now licensed and freely prescribed don't work in England, I'll never understand it!
Well if they are to expensive and we cannot be treated for cancer. let`s stop paying to cancer research. See what happens then.
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