11 May 2018 - Seven drugs to treat patients with a range of conditions from cancer to muscular dystrophy are unavailable to Scottish patients despite being available south of the border, it has emerged. 

The list of drugs has emerged in the answer to a parliamentary question tabled by Tory shadow health secretary Miles Briggs. 

This week Ruth Davidson highlighted the unavailability of breast cancer drug Perjeta, which gives patients in the advanced stages of the illness extra months of life, at First Minister’s Questions.

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