More money is needed to care for patients with cancer
Autor: | A. Jones, Penella J. Woll, M. Nicolson, J M A Whitehouse, Robert E. Coleman, N. S. A. Stuart, Robert C. F. Leonard, James S. Malpas, J. Cassidy, M B McIllmurray, I.E. Smith |
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Rok vydání: | 1997 |
Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Coping (psychology) business.industry General Engineering Cancer Care Facilities General Medicine Primary care Cytotoxic chemotherapy medicine.disease Regional cancer General Earth and Planetary Sciences Medicine Medical emergency business Intensive care medicine health care economics and organizations General Environmental Science |
Zdroj: | BMJ. 315:811-812 |
ISSN: | 1468-5833 0959-8138 |
DOI: | 10.1136/bmj.315.7111.811 |
Popis: | Editor—The redistribution of NHS funding to primary care is causing severe problems in cancer units and centres. Members of clinical directorates and regional cancer centres are seeing rapidly increasing numbers of patients, often while coping with reduced budgets. The main target for budget reductions is often the money spent on cytotoxic chemotherapy. Potent but expensive new cytotoxic agents, which are generally agreed to be effective, are available. As a result of recent contract negotiations their use has in effect not been … |
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