Will UK's Unloved Cancer Drugs Fund Become An Election Issue?
Executive Summary
The fund, implementing a previous election promise to improve access to drugs the NHS was not covering, became an expensive failure, report concludes. Collection of RWE in particular was a missed opportunity.
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