Health Select Committee Report On NICE, UK
"We welcome this report and its emphasis on taking into account quality of life as this is so important to cancer patients," says Derryn Borley, Cancerbackup Head of Cancer Support Services. "We are particularly pleased that the committee has taken up one of Cancerbackup's recommendations that the QALY threshold should be reviewed. Currently quality of life issues don't score highly within the NICE process. However, for cancer patients and their carers quality of life is a major factor in living with the disease, for example being able to take a cancer treatment orally at home as opposed to intravenously in a hospital can have huge implications, but this and other quality of life issues aren't given enough weight when assessing the QALY under the current system .
Cancerbackup also welcomes the recommendation to increase awareness among the public of the role of NICE and the terms it uses so that people can know what they can and can not expect from their local NHS.
Recognition that implementation of NICE guidance needs to be improved is also welcomed.
1) Cancerbackup is the only national charity that specialises in providing information on all types of cancer.
2) All Cancerbackup services are free to cancer patients, their relatives and friends.
3) Cancerbackup Freephone Information Service: 0808 800 1234 (Mon-Fri, 9am-8pm). Cancerbackup Centres can be found in St Bartholomew's Hospital, Charing Cross Hospital, the London Clinic, The Christie Hospital, Ipswich Hospital, Nottingham University Hospitals, Coventry's University Hospital and Jersey. The charity's website can be found at http://www.cancerbackup.org.uk.
4) Cancerbackup, as a charity, receives 54% of its funding from individuals, 11% from charitable trusts, 5% from grants, 14% from companies, 2% from investments and 14% from its trading company. Pharmaceutical companies contributed 9% of the total 2005/06 income.
5) In April 2006 Cancerbackup changed its name from CancerBACUP, so that the charity's name better represents the service the charity provides: information, understanding and support to anyone affected by cancer.
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