The man in charge of a special NHS fund for cancer medicines in England has said there will need to be further cuts to the treatments it pays for.

Last week it emerged 25 different cancer treatments would no longer be paid for by the Cancer Drugs Fund.

And Prof Peter Clark, an oncologist who runs the fund, said the rising cost of drugs was a problem, warning that the system for chemotherapy drugs was "broken", the BBC reports.

The Cancer Drugs Fund was established and spends a significant amount on medicines which would not otherwise be available to NHS patients in England.

Prof Clark said he regretted that the fund undermined decisions by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) – which normally approves drugs for use.

He said: "The issue at the minute is commissioning of chemotherapy is broken.

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