P-05-699 A Treatment Fund for Wales - There Must be an End to the Healthcare Postcode Lottery
P-05-699 A Treatment Fund for Wales - There Must be an End to the Healthcare Postcode Lottery
This
petition was submitted by Angharad Roche, having collected 27 signatures.
Petition Wording
One
of the greatest creations to come out of Wales was the National Health Service.
It is one of our most valuable assets and we must hold on to it. At present, we
are in the desperate situation where treatment for costly, life-saving drug
treatments is not fairly or evenly distributed throughout Wales. Patients with
a desperate need for live-saving drugs are being denied the treatments that
they so urgently require by their Local Health Boards, with grave consequences
to their health and life expectancy. I am calling on the Welsh Government to
review their procedures in relation to the sanctioning of high-cost drug
treatments with immediate effect. I further call on the Welsh Government to
assess each patient and each patient's needs on a case-by-case basis as the
current requirement for all funded drug treatments to appear on a list of
'Approved Drugs' is too narrow and prevents patients from accessing treatments
which are not yet on the list but which Consultants say will have a positive
impact on a Patient's long-term health and life- expectancy.
Status
This petition was considered completed by the Petitions Committee at its meeting on 07/03/2017.
The Committee considered correspondence on the
petition and agreed to close the petition on the basis that it is not possible
to identify how to take the petition forward in the absence of contact with the
petitioner; and in doing so await the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being
and Sport’s statement on the recently published review of the Individual
Patient Funding Request (IPFR) process, and forward it to the petitioner for
information.
Full details of the consideration of this petition
by the committee and related documents can be seen on the Meetings tab above.
Assembly Constituency and
Region
·
South
Wales Central
·
Cardiff
West
Further information
Business type: Petition
Reason considered: Senedd Business;
Status: Complete
First published: 08/08/2016