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New drugs available after Cancer Drugs Fund revamp
30 July 2016 - The NHS has announced new potentially life-saving medicines that will be made available to patients as part ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Jul 2016
Controversial CDF revamp launches
29 July 2016 - England's Cancer Drugs Fund reopens under its new model today, but the pharma industry and charities are ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Jul 2016
Japan's Eisai weighs legal action in UK cancer drug row
8 July 2016 - Japan's Eisai said on Friday it would consider all options, including possible legal action, to fight delays ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Jul 2016
Pfizer drug wins U.K. support following overhaul of Cancer Fund
7 July 2016 - Drug costs $58,000 a year before discounts from Pfizer. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Jun 2016
UK trailing Europe on access to cancer drugs
23 June 2016 - The UK is trailing Europe on cancer spend, survival rates and patient access to new oncology medicines, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Jun 2016
Doctor's diary: cancer drugs - hope or hype?
13 June 2016 - When it comes to promoting new cancer therapies, hype springs eternal. But prodigious cost – up to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Jun 2016
Cancer Drugs Fund 2.0: a missed opportunity?
14 June 2016 - The UK National Health Service, like most other developed health care systems, has struggled with how to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Jun 2016
Why cancer?
14 June 2016 - Throughout my career as a health economist, one issue has always been a mystery to me—why does ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Jun 2016
The Cancer Drugs Fund
8 June 2016 - Over the past five years thousands of patients in England have been given access to new but ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 May 2016
Getting effective cancer drugs to patients faster
18 May 2016 - The NHS and NICE are absolutely committed to ensuring people with cancer in England have access ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 May 2016
Cancer Drugs Fund changes deeply concerning, say charities
16 May 2016 - Fifteen cancer charities have said they are "deeply concerned" about new plans for approving innovative cancer medicines ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Mar 2016
Rip-off prices stop cancer patients getting new drugs
29 March 2016 - Patients will be denied cutting-edge medicines because drugs companies are overcharging the NHS, the head of the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Mar 2016
Faster access to effective cancer treatments through new Cancer Drugs Fund
16 March 2016 - Proposals will see new clinically and cost effective cancer drugs approved for use on the NHS earlier ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Mar 2016
At last, NICE to take over the Cancer Drugs Fund
7 March 2016 - The reincarnation of the Cancer Drugs Fund will benefit both NICE and the NHS. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Mar 2016
New “managed access” process for Cancer Drugs Fund to go ahead, NHS England confirms
29 February 2016 - NHS England has confirmed that from 1 July its Cancer Drugs Fund will operate on a “managed ...