Your new post is loading...
Doctors at Northampton General last used the state-of-the-art SABR radiotherapy device two months ago
|
Scooped by Graham Player Ph.D. |
Scoop.it!
No comment yet.
Sign up to comment
It seems in England that finances are driving cancer treatments. Not only within families, but now in the very services available from the medical system. Apparently the National Health Service (NHS) in England has decided to save money by denying certain treatments to cancer patients.
The result is that some hospitals in England that have acquired expensive equipment for the treatment of cancer, are not permitted by the NHS to use it. So the equipment sits there idle and unused.
This is another example of how medicine is driven by money, rather than what may benefit patients. The implications of this for the future of cancer care, as well as all medical care, are quite frightening.
Our communities are indeed driven by money, and in many cases to the exclusion of other important beneficial aspects. More and more it seems that the developed world culture is progressively becoming even more focused on money-worship, profits and bottom-lines.