Summary
SCOTTISH patients have demanded Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon end the "postcode lottery" in drug provision after a second person with a rare blood disorder was refused potentially life-prolonging treatment despite a plea from a top clinician.
Retired barmaid Joyce Juszcak, 65, was refused the drug eculizumab for paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria (PNH) on appeal by an NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde panel weeks after another patient William Devine died shortly after receiving his rejection letter.See the full content of this document
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Sturgeon Urged to End Scotland's Drug Lottery
Mrs Juszcak, of Gourock, Inverclyde, who describes herself as a "walking timebomb", had been recommended for the treatm...
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