Professional experiences of accessing cancer drugs in the NHS: the introduction of the Cancer Drugs Fund, the individual versus the population
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Background The establishment of the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF), which removed the necessity for cost-effectiveness as a criterion for drugs access and expedited access to nonNICE appraised drugs, has significantly changed prescribing of cancer drugs for terminally ill cancer patients in the NHS. Neither clinicians nor the public have a preference for spending money on cancer over other disease states. The most effective and efficient way to spend resource within cancer care is hotly debated.
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دوره 14 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014