THE NHS
This time it is as much a case of “I’m all right, Taffy” as “I’m all right, Jock”.
Welsh patients attending the Hereford County Hospital are being given drugs which are denied to the English. Even those English living in Hereford.
Even English cancer patients are being denied drugs, and are told that they will have to wait up to 2 years for the drugs to be approved by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence [NICE], which has reduced the number of drug appraisals each year from 3 to 2 due to funding cuts from the government.
Meanwhile, the Welsh and Scottish boards have had no such funding cuts and drugs are being approved without delay. NICE also seems to be leisurely in its activities.
As the payment of drugs is governed by where a patient lives, rather than where he is treated, then this means that English hospitals can give drugs to Scottish and Welsh patients and at the same time refuse them to the English.
The Scots and Welsh are of course able to pay for all this courtesy of the English taxpayer and the extra subsidies they receive under the Barnett Formula.
Welsh patients attending the Hereford County Hospital are being given drugs which are denied to the English. Even those English living in Hereford.
Even English cancer patients are being denied drugs, and are told that they will have to wait up to 2 years for the drugs to be approved by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence [NICE], which has reduced the number of drug appraisals each year from 3 to 2 due to funding cuts from the government.
Meanwhile, the Welsh and Scottish boards have had no such funding cuts and drugs are being approved without delay. NICE also seems to be leisurely in its activities.
As the payment of drugs is governed by where a patient lives, rather than where he is treated, then this means that English hospitals can give drugs to Scottish and Welsh patients and at the same time refuse them to the English.
The Scots and Welsh are of course able to pay for all this courtesy of the English taxpayer and the extra subsidies they receive under the Barnett Formula.
posted by erc @ 9:36 pm
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