Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Mar 2019
Cancer patient denied life-prolonging drug as she lives half a mile outside England
13 March 2019 - A seriously ill mum-of-two has spoken of her devastation after being denied a life prolonging cancer drug - because she lives just half a mile over the Welsh border.
Joannah Houghton, 47, was told she was not eligible for the palliative medication Avastin because there is no NHS funding for the drug in Wales.
In a cruel twist of fate, the NHS worker of 22 years would have been entitled for it if she lived just three minutes down the road in England. Mrs Houghton, of Chirk, North Wales, has told of her heartbreak now that her life could be cruelly cut short as a result of a cancer postcode lottery.
