Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Health – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 27 November 2012.
Pauline Latham
Conservative, Mid Derbyshire
11:30,
27 November 2012
I thank my right hon. Friend for that answer, but I have previously raised in the House a Constituency case where the NHS East Midlands cancer drugs fund would not pay for drugs that other CDFs would pay for, such as Avastin for second-line treatment of bowel cancer. Sadly, my constituent has since died because she could not get funding for the drugs she needed, having spent all her own money funding the treatment herself. Will my right hon. Friend meet me and my late constituent’s consultant, Dr Bessell, to discuss how we can end this postcode lottery?
In a general election, each Constituency chooses an MP to represent them. MPs have a responsibility to represnt the views of the Constituency in the House of Commons. There are 650 Constituencies, and thus 650 MPs. A citizen of a Constituency is known as a Constituent