Did the National Health Service Let 20,000 Brits Die?
“Up to 20,000 people have died needlessly early after being denied cancer drugs on the [British National Health Service], it was revealed yesterday,” according to Daniel Martin of The Daily Mail. These unnecessary or unnecessarily quick deaths had to do with patients being refused cancer medication for rare forms of cancer. “[In the last year] four drugs which could have benefited 16,000 people have been turned down outright and a further six which could have helped 4,000 more have been provisionally rejected. “Just five drugs have been accepted – benefiting 8,500 people – says a damning report by the Rarer Cancers Forum.
