Funding medicines for people with multiple sclerosis

摘要

The establishment of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) in 1999 was one of the cornerstones of New Labour's strategy for improving the NHS. Its mission includes giving guidance on how medicines should be prescribed to provide affordable value for money. This should eliminate postcode rationing, whereby some NHS patients are given expensive drugs depending on where they live, while people with similar needs elsewhere are denied the same treatment.