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Most people won't know what you're referencing. https://www.channel4.com/news/drugs-life-breast-cancer-nice-20-000-a-year-of-life-nhs https://www.channel4.com/
by huxley 10y ago
Most people won't know what you're referencing.
https://www.channel4.com/news/drugs-life-breast-cancer-nice-20-000-a-year-of-life-nhs https://www.channel4.com/news/drugs-life-breast-cancer-nice-...
https://www.nice.org.uk/news/article/kadcyla-too-expensive-for-routine-funding-on-nhs https://www.nice.org.uk/news/article/kadcyla-too-expensive-f...
NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) sets the guidance on the QALY (Quality Adjusted Life Year) at between 20000-50000GBP for a year's worth of a single drug treatment.
Of the drugs that they approve for coverage the annual regimen has to be under a threshold of 50000GBP or it may not be covered by the NHS.
But that 20000-50000GBP is per drug per person, someone could be on multiple drugs and treatments simultaneously for much more than that and they'll be covered.