ANOTHER NHS NIGHTMARE PROVES NATIONALIZING HEALTHCARE IS A DISASTER

TELEGRAPH: Cancer doctors do not tell patients about drugs which could prolong lives

Cancer doctors are failing to tell their patients about life-extending "top up" drugs which are not available on the NHS, research has found.

The specialists feel so uncomfortable discussing treatments that their patients may not be able to afford that just one in five routinely disclose the existence of drugs which the health service will not pay for, according to charity Beating Bowel Cancer.

Its findings come as a parliamentary committee prepares to publish a report into changes in Government rules to allow patients who pay for such treatment to continue to be cared for by the NHS.

Until a u-turn last year, patients who bought drugs the health service refused to fund were forced to pay tens of thousands more for their hospital care. The policy had the greatest impact on bowel cancer sufferers, because Avastin and Erbitux, the two main drugs for those with the advanced stages of the disease, are normally denied by the NHS on cost grounds. On Tuesday, the health select committee will examine whether the new rules are working.

HMMM: COMMITTEES DETERMINING WHO GETS WHAT CARE AND NOT YOU AND YOUR DOCTOR?!!?!?

• THAT'S WHAT SOCIALISM IS ALL ABOUT.

• AND OBAMA WOULD PEOPLE THESE COMMITTEES WITH SEIU, ACORN, POLITICAL CRONIES AND BUREAUCRATS.

• THAT'S A PRESCRIPTION FOR DISASTER.

DISSENT ACCORDINGLY.