Paul Maynard, Conservative MP for Blackpool North and Cleveleys, is welcoming an announcement from the Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley MP, of an additional £50 million a year to provide innovative new cancer drugs for patients on the NHS. The extra spending on life-saving drugs and improving patient care will start in October this year.
Commenting, Paul says, “This is good news for Blackpool and Cleveleys; both towns have many residents fighting cancer and any extra help in funding drugs will be very welcome. I am also pleased to see that doctors locally will be put in charge on how the money is spent in the best interests of local patients on specialists advice. This is localism in the NHS and trusting the clinician over the bureaucrat.”
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