Stop cuts to the NHS, allow cancer patients to receive the treatment they need!

Rejected 11 signatures

What the petition asks

Health officials have just announced sweeping restrictions on treatment, which will mean more than 5,000 cancer patients will be denied life-extending drugs under plans which is a step backwards for the NHS, In total, 17 cancer drugs for 25 different indications will no longer be paid for in future.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/11844314/Thousands-of-cancer-patients-to-be-denied-treatment.html

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

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Reinstate all of the drugs recently removed from the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF)

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Timeline

6 Sep 2015	Petition opened for signatures
9 Sep 2015	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 11

Status Rejected

Rejected 9 Sep 2015

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