Cancer Drugs Fund 'huge waste of money'

Cancer Drugs Fund 'huge waste of money' The fund ran from 2010 to 2016, costing £1.27bn, following an election promise made by the Conservatives to pay for cancer drugs the NHS was not funding.


The researchers found only one in five of the treatments was of benefit.

But the Tories said the fund gave patients "precious extra time".

Nearly 100,000 patients received drugs under the scheme. It was run separately to the normal NHS process for assessing the effectiveness and affordability of new drugs, which is administered by a body called NICE. BBC News

See also:

• Do patient access schemes for high-cost cancer drugs deliver value to society?—lessons from the NHS Cancer Drugs Fund (open access) Annals of Oncology
• Are NHS patients getting the best medicines? BBC News
• £1.3bn NHS cancer drug fund 'doesn't help patient' The Daily Mail
• £1.27 billion Cancer Drugs Fund a political 'quick-fix' that harmed some patients, review finds The Daily Telegraph
• Cancer Drugs Fund condemned as expensive and ineffective The Guardian