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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu
IF, the Government stopped paying out millions of pounds in wasted money. Then this country could afford money for HIV medicines, Cancer patients need medicine.
I am not going on about the AID budget. What l am saying that we hear EACH day, where patients need certain medicine to help there health problems.
This is often turned down, DUE TO COST.
Then they start getting aid from certain sources and go to America. And have to buy the treatment.
This is not right
We should have that right to have ANY medicine on the NHS
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Some medications are expensive and do not, in the view of the NHS/NICE, provide value for it.
It may sound cold but it comes down to a cost benefit analysis of we get for what we pay. A cancer treatment which could have a 0.5% increase in survival at 10x the price is probably not worth it (this is an example, I don't know how they actually decide). The NHS has limited resources and the money spent on one area is gone from another, that money could be better spent on prevention campaigns that could improve survival though early detection by 20% or something.