Showing posts with label Cost-Effectiveness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cost-Effectiveness. Show all posts

NICE set to lift 'prescription of pain' limit on £100-a-week arthritis drugs - Daily Mail 24th November 2008

Monday, November 24, 2008

Thousands of arthritis sufferers can keep using a range of drugs after rationing watchdog Nice overturned its decision to ban them.

The ruling earlier this year, restricting access to the £100-a-week treatments, had been condemned by campaigners as a 'prescription for pain'.

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tags: Evidence Based Practice, Cost-Effectiveness, Arthritis, Drug Therapy, Health, News, UHN, Daily Mail

Additional Story

  1. Fresh look at arthritis drugs use - BBC Health News 24th November 2008

‘It isn’t easy to say no’ - BBC Health News 23rd November 2008

Imagine being one of the people who decides if a life-saving drug is too expensive for the public purse - when individual patients are desperate to get hold of the medicine.

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tags: Health, News, UHN, Drug Therapy, Evidence Based Practice, Cost-Effectiveness, BBC Health News