NHS failing cancer patients

New report from the Rarer Cancers Forum suggests that 16,000 people in the UK have been denied cancer drugs by the government-controlled NHS.

This damning finding should come as little surprise – the UK has an abysmal level of uptake on new cancer drugs, and very poor cancer survival rates compared to peer countries. The failure of the NHS’s rationing system should be a warning to policy-makers in the USA, South Africa and the rest of the world.