Leading article: Our health service can no longer dodge reform - The Independent 10th September 2008

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

The spiralling cost of drugs presents an unavoidable challenge. It is the sort of warning liable to give health ministers sleepless nights. Professor Karol Sikora, the director of a private provider of cancer services, has warned that the National Health Service's bill for cancer drugs could rise to as much as £50bn, swallowing up half of the entire present health budget. The consequences would indeed, as Professor Sikora argues, push the NHS towards "meltdown".

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