Letter: Shropshire Star (CEP Shropshire)

Drug must be given to all of UK

Further to the letter by Stuart Parr concerning the cancer drug Herceptin.

The Welsh Assembly has recently announced that all women in Wales will be prescribed the drug, where needed, on the NHS, but the British government still refuses to fund the drug for women in England.

Instead, the decision will be left to the relevant PCTs, all of whom are millions of pounds in debt and simply cannot afford it on the meagre funding allocated to England. The English tax payer is now funding this life-saving drug for women in Scotland and Wales, while their own wives, sisters, daughters and mothers are considered not worthy of the cost by Gordon Brown the Scottish Chancellor.

Della Petch
East Yorkshire