Lung patients 'condemned to death as NHS withdraws their too expensive drugs'
UK Daily Mail: 24th March 2008
Hundreds of patients with a rare lung disease will be sentenced to death by plans to stop doctors prescribing a range of drugs on the NHS, it was claimed last night.
Campaigners have condemned proposals by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence to withdraw the drugs because they are too expensive.
The condition, pulmonary hypertension, affects an estimated 4,000 people in the UK.
Only a quarter of these need the most expensive level of treatment.
Yet the plans by NICE, the Government's drug rationing body, mean no life-extending therapies will be available to new patients because the cost of the most expensive exceeds its threshold of £30,000 per head.
Only the cheapest drug used to combat the condition will remain available for patients...
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