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How three parties intend to maintain or improve access to costly medicines
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Andalo, Debbie |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | Just 24 hours before Prime Minister Gordon Brown drove to Buckingham Palace to ask the Queen to dissolve Parliament, shadow health spokesman Andrew Lansley was telling the BBC Today programme listeners that a Conservative government would increase patient access to expensive cancer drugs currently denied on the NHS. Although The King’s Fund’s chief economist John Appleby told the Radio 4 programme on Easter Monday that he was sceptical about how such a policy would be funded, the unveiling of the Tory promise to the electorate on the eve of the official launch of the general election campaign speaks volumes. The Conservatives have decided to make the emotive issue of access to cancer drugs a key one for voters at the 6 May polls. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Volume Number | 284 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.pharmaceutical-journal.com/download?ac=1065630 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
