Negotiations Needed To Ensure Cancer Patients In The UK Don't Have A Long Wait For Cancer Treatments, Says Cancerbackup
"Access to treatments is a complex issue, NICE and funding are just parts of the equation," says Joanne Rule, Cancerbackup Chief Executive.
"New treatments are delayed by many factors, including lack of funds and financial management within PCTs, knowledge of new treatments by clinicians, and the delay in new drugs being referred to NICE by the Department of Health.
Pharmaceutical companies also need to find a way to ensure that their treatments can be purchased by the NHS at levels closer to the NICE affordability threshold. The Department of Health, pharmaceuticals and regulators need to sit round a table and try and find a way for cancer patients to have faster access to cancer treatments,"
Cancerbackup is the only national charity that specialises in providing information on all types of cancer. All Cancerbackup services are free to cancer patients, their relatives and friends. 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. 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.
www.cancerbackup.org.uk
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