Discworld author criticises NHS priorities
Discworld author Terry Pratchett has criticised a decision to limit the drug Aricept through the NHS to people in the later stages of Alzheimer’s disease, saying that the decision not to give it to early stage sufferers, but to provide free treatment for obesity and sexual impotence, indicates the NHS “priorities are not right”. He thinks this is in part due to the disease affecting old people who are “softer targets”.
tags: AIDS, Alzheimer's disease, anti-depressants, cancer, Discworld, funding, HIV, mental health, NHS, obesity, smoking, Terry Pratchett
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