! This post hasn't been updated in over a year. A lot can change in a year including my opinion and the amount of naughty words I use. There's a good chance that there's something in what's written below that someone will find objectionable. That's fine, if I tried to please everybody all of the time then I'd be a Lib Dem (remember them?) and I'm certainly not one of those. The point is, I'm not the kind of person to try and alter history in case I said something in the past that someone can use against me in the future but just remember that the person I was then isn't the person I am now nor the person I'll be in a year's time.
English children who have been trialling a sickle cell anemia drug may end up having to return to painful injections because English Primary Care Trusts (PCT’s) don’t want to pay for it.
Treatment for sickle cell anemia in children normally consists of injections into the stomach administered for 8-12 hours a day for up to 5 days a week by parents. The new treatment is a tablet in the morning and a tablet at night.
The new treatment is, of course, available for free on the NHS in Scotland courtesy of the English taxpayer.
Sickle Cell Anemia is a painful disease that stays with the sufferer for life, decreases life expectency and causes eventual organ failure and strokes.
Sickle Cell Anaemia isn’t a condition that has been suffered, historically, by English people; it is yet another of the benefits of ‘diversity’ amongst the people of England. There is relatively little ‘diversity’ in Sc*tland so the failure of NICE to address the problem is understandable.
Surely providing the Sickle Cell patients with tablets instead of the daily injections would benefit the English Health system; costing them less in the patients hospital visits and supplies. So benefiting all!
The parents give the injections at home so I guess the hospital visits are negligible.
Sickle cell anaemia mostly affects people from Africa and the Carribean! So I can’t wait to hear Trevor Phillips, Dianne Abbott, Paul Boateng, and whatshername…oh Alibi whatsit start ranting and raving about NICE!! Oh dear, they can’t ‘cos they espouse political correctness and NICE policies! See people, (Phillips, Abbott et al) if you condone evil it catches up to you in the end! What a pity that you can’t come out and scream and shout when it’s English people dying ah?
I am a person with Sickle Cell living in US. This disease is not soley an “African” disease, it is seen all over the world, and is life threatening. The pain that a patient (men, women and children) endures is so disabling any treatment given is appreciated. Think about the person, with the blood disease they are born with without choice, and treat that person, that human, that soul…please!