Individual funding requests

Reforms to Individual Patient Funding Request system in Wales approved

Patients in Wales will no longer have to prove they have “exceptional clinical circumstances” in order to access drugs that are not routinely available on the NHS.…

Gething confirms £80m fund for high-cost medicines in Wales

A central fund worth £80m that will pay for the immediate use of new, high-cost medicines that are approved for use in Wales has been announced by Vaughan Gething, cabinet secretary for health for the Welsh government.…

Making funding decisions in primary care

Rajiv Dhir is senior prescribing adviser for the Wandsworth Clinical Commissioning Group in London. He explains why working in primary care allows him to be both a practitioner and a manager.…

Drug firms must price cancer drugs fairly, says charity

‘Inflated’ prices set by drug companies for breast cancer treatments are creating a barrier that no regulatory system can overcome, a cancer charity argues.…