The government’s Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has unveiled plans to create a £50 million cancer fund, to help patients access drugs not currently available on the NHS.
The new programme, starting in October 2010, will give greater powers to doctors working in local groups, who will be able to decide how funding is spent in their areas. Most importantly, doctors will be able to improve the quality of life for cancer patients by offering them non-NICE (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) approved medication.
This funding is an interim measure, as it has also been revealed that a new fund for cancer drugs will be launched in 2011.
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