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ABPI comments on the NHS England's decision for the Cancer Drugs Fund
26 February 2016 - The ABPI is disappointed by today's decision by NHS England that it will continue to push ahead ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Feb 2016
New NHS cancer drugs fund approved
25 February 2016 - The new system will start in July 2016 and have a fixed budget of £340 million. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Feb 2016
NHS plan to reassess value of cancer drugs alarms patient groups
26 February 2016 - NHS England backs tighter control on drugs spending, which opponents say would set treatment ‘back by a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Feb 2016
'I wouldn't want to be a cancer patient in England': Drug company boss slams NHS watchdog for denying patients life-changing treatments
11 February 2016 - Erik Nordkamp, managing director of Pfizer UK, said England already had one of the poorest outcomes for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Feb 2016
Ministers scramble to introduce new NHS cancer drugs scheme
11 February 2016 - Ministers have less than two months to thrash out a new system for financing cancer drugs in ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Feb 2016
MPs find no evidence that Cancer Drugs Fund was spent wisely
5 February 2016 - A total of £1.27bn (€1.7bn; $1.9bn) has so far been spent on the Cancer Drugs Fund in ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Feb 2016
Sixty seconds on . . . the Cancer Drugs Fund
9 February 2016 - Since its creation in 2010, £1.27bn. It has treated 80 000 people, roughly, so the average has been ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Feb 2016
Cancer Drugs Fund 'should be managed better', say MPs
5 February 2016 - A special NHS fund for cancer medicines in England needs to be managed more effectively, says a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Nov 2015
Breast cancer drug Kadcyla to remain on NHS after manufacturer lowers price
5 November 2015 - The drug was set to be dumped from UK’s list of approved medicines before a deal ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Oct 2015
Call for Britain to over-ride patents on Roche cancer drug
1 October 2015 - A group of patients and campaigners has called on Britain's health minister to over-ride patents protecting Roche's ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Sep 2015
UK NHS cancer patients denied drugs due to inflated prices – experts
23 September 2015 - Cancer patients are being denied drugs on the NHS that could lengthen their lives because of unnecessarily ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Sep 2015
No evidence that £1bn Cancer Drugs Fund has helped patients, says watchdog
17 September 2015 - There is no way of knowing whether the Cancer Drugs Fund, which has cost the NHS £1bn ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Sep 2015
Cancer drugs fund 'is not sustainable' after exceeding its budget by 50% to help 74,000 patients receive life-saving treatments not approved by NHS watchdog
17 September 2015 - A fund set up by the Government to pay for potentially life-saving drugs that have yet to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Sep 2015
CDF has improved drugs access but is not sustainable, NAO finds
17 September 2015 - England’s Cancer Drug Fund has improved patient access to novel cancer drugs not routinely available on the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Sep 2015
NHS England drops 16 medicines from Cancer Drugs Fund [BMJ]
9 September 2015 - NHS England has stemmed rising costs in the Cancer Drugs Fund by eliminating a further 16 medicines, ...