Nice’s proposals ‘could further reduce access to cancer drugs that patients’ doctors recommend’
Sir, The Government has promised that patients will be able to access the drugs their doctors recommend. Today is the deadline for making comments on proposals by Nice (the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) for translating this commitment into reality. However, far from improving matters we believe that the current Nice proposals could further reduce access over time.
As cancer charities we see the direct impact that refusal to fund new medicines has on individual patients. What is needed is an approach that has at its heart the understanding that every patient is an individual, every treatment is