Government launches £200 million a year Cancer Drugs Fund
Delivering on NHS modernisation: Government launches £200 million a year Cancer Drugs Fund, as raft of improvements is rolled out in the new financial year
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Published date:1 April 2011
A £200 million a year Cancer Drugs Fund that will help cancer patients get greater access to cancer drugs their doctors recommend for them, was launched by Health Secretary Andrew Lansley today.
The commencement of the fund follows the successful £50m interim fund that has helped over 2,000 cancer patients from across England gain access to life-extending drugs since October last year.
The Cancer Drugs Fund is just one of a number of commitments made reality today. From 1 April:
‘No one seems to care about the carers’
‘No one seems to care about the carers’
Care: Full-time carers, Freda and Albert Redfearn with their daughter Lorraine at their home in Bamber Bridge
A FAMILY of a severely disabled woman has blasted cuts to public spending and claim they will be left unable to cope.
Poem by a Carer……A bad back
It’s hard to carry out caring,
When your back refuses to bend,
And you cannot get your socks on,
Because your leg seems to have no end.
But you cannot be ill as a carer,
The job is still there to be done,
But with backache, it’s like doing the firewalk,
But not nearly half so much fun.
So get yourself up out of bed, lad,
Leave the sheets warm, smooth as silk,
Creak to the bathroom and wash time,
Then go get some bread and some milk.
Try find a comfy position,
Sitting, standing, lying and then,
Hold it for a couple of minutes,
Until duty starts calling again.
So lots of pills and medication,
Will soon have you up , feeling frisky.
O!! Bum to the painkilling tablets,
And pass me the bottle of whisky.
Author A Carer
