Clause 1 - Duty on the Secretary of State to promote comprehensive health service based on social solidarity

Part of National Health Service (Amended Duties and Powers) Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 3:15 pm on 10 February 2015.

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Photo of Andrew Gwynne Andrew Gwynne Shadow Minister (Health) 3:15, 10 February 2015

I will try to help the hon. Gentleman with an example from my constituency, where a lady came to see me at my surgery having been diagnosed with breast cancer. NICE has approved the use of the drug Herceptin. The local health trust where she lives decided that that was not medically necessary for her. Had she lived in the other part of my constituency, the NHS trust would have prescribed her Herceptin.