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Archive for category: Equal Access
20
March
2015

Support access to drugs meetings

By: Cancer Focus Fundraising Events Team0

Cancer Focus NI is urging local people to attend their local public meeting to voice their opinions on how to improve access to specialist drugs. The DHSSPS has organised a series of meetings across Northern Ireland (details below) intended to provide an opportunity for public discussion of the rece...

17
February
2015

Drugs fund report welcomed

By: Cancer Focus Fundraising Events Team0

Proposed changes to NI’s current drug approval process have been welcomed by Cancer Focus Northern Ireland. Following the charity’s Equal Access campaign for the same access to cancer drugs for Northern Ireland patients as those living in England, Health Minister Jim Wells announced a review in May...

13
November
2014

Latest news on Equal Access to drugs

By: Cancer Focus Fundraising Events Team0

A delegation from Cancer Focus Northern Ireland has met with the panel set up to carry out an evaluation of the Individual Funding Request (IFR) process. The IFR process is intended to provide access to unapproved specialist drugs for patients where there is an agreed clinical need. These drugs are...

22
October
2014

Vera’s cancer story

By: Cancer Focus Fundraising Events Team0

Young-at-heart Vera Saunderson (72) lives in Carrickfergus. Vera was diagnosed with liver cancer in 2012 and is experiencing first-hand the inequality in accessing life-extending cancer drugs in Northern Ireland.  Vera, a widow with two children and four grandchildren, was faced with the dilemma of...

08
October
2014

Allister’s cancer story

By: Cancer Focus Fundraising Events Team0

Allister Murphy (57), from Newtownabbey, was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer in 2008 and has had first-hand experience of the inequality of access to cancer drugs in Northern Ireland. He says: “It was Christmas 2007 at an office party when I noticed a tiny speck of blood in my urine. Years p...