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All ideas and info. provided here are to be discussed with your medical professionals. I am NOT Medically trained. I have merely had this vile disease since 1998 - always use your Common Sense and seek expert medical advice.
YOU MAY FIND THE LINKS in text and in the Right Sidebar of Help.
I can NOT vouch for any external site that I may direct readers to & therefore can NOT accept any legal responsibility - this is a personal blog of that which I believe only.
I do NOT believe there are magical cures hidden from us by our medical professionals though there are without doubt cases that seem cured as if by magic. Medical knowledge of this disease is very rudimentary and research frequently profligate but pointless!
However - sticking goji berries in your ear on a moonless night or similar WILL NOT HELP - Nor will the price paid for quackery be it here OR Mexico, Brazil or China!
There are many health care professionals trying their very best with great care and compassion but perfection is a little way off!
Be Minded:
I have cancer - cancer does not have me!

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come". - (Julius Caesar - Act II, Scene II).

Thursday 28 August 2008

28-Aug-2011 - I do find the behaviour of the British Government shamefull

2008 August 28 03:30:37 BST
Posted By: Greg_L-W.
 Discussion
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Hi,

I do find the behaviour of the British Government shamefull.

It is clearly revolting that on the very day the Government's shelter organisation the QUANGO N.I.C.E. is befouling the image of what was the envy of the world, the British NHS, by hiding in their luxury Head Quarters behind their £30,000,000 annual budget.

Hiding from some 60 Kidney Cancer patients and their carers peacefully demonstrating against the new Government policy, as announced by N.I.C.E., to selectively EUthenase an entire category of patients those Challenged by Kidney Cancer who are now to be deliberately denied the drugs they clinically require both to continue to live and to have a quality in the life that is left to the,

Whilst these brave people, some of whom were dying as a result of this deliberate action, were demonstrating I, as a Kidney Cancer patient was unable to attend due to the damage I have received physically as a result of my Kidney Cancer, but whilst my friends were there to protest at their impending death, against the very people who can save them N.I.C.E. - I was aware the disingenuous claim of N.I.C.E. was that they could not afford the drugs and rather than admit it was directly due to the incompetence of the Government in the management of the Health Service - the devolved irresponsibility of regionalisation that has led to the "post code lottery".

N.I.C.E. has even tried to shelter their incompetence to manage or negotiate, behind the specious claim that the people who researched and funded the developement of these drugs charge too much - yet it is clear that America who fund the drug for prisoners on death row and the Argentine that prescribes it more than Britain, Malasia and the EU and a total of some 70 Countries around the world would seem to disagree!

Consider - on the very day whilst my friends were demonstarting and their servants the Government funded N.I.C.E. lacked even the manners to meet with these very ill people and N.I.C.E. security was turned on these sick people to intimidate them by photographing them in the street despite the presence of Police Officers invited BY the demonstrators!

Whilst they were peacefully demonstrating and N.I.C.E. hid in shame - I read on my computer that MY Government had pledged to squander from the NHS budget £170,000,000 to train therapists to councel those with 'Cognative Behaviour Disorder' - to buy votes by providing this fashion and lifestyle service rather than fund the drugs that are available world wide for Kidney Cancer that may, if nothing else, provide experience for the Oncologists and researchers towards an actual cure whilst giving hope to us The Kidney Cancer Patients that N.I.C.E. have selected to deliberately permit to die for economic expediency - whilst still funding breast enhancement, In Vitro Fertilisation, tattoo removal and many other treatments that can ONLY be seen as frivolous when compared with the deliberate death of Kidney Cancer patients!

Do warn us at what stage we are to be moved into The Harold Shipman Ward in our Regionalised NHS Hospital.

First they came for Kidney Cancer patients and took away their lives
but as you were no a Kidney Cancer Patient I guess you did nothing!

Then they came for those with Crohns Disease (?) and withdrew their treatment
but as you didn't have Crohns Disease I guess you did nothing!

When they come for YOU in your hour of need and weakness -
there was no one left to help you they had been swept away, I guess 'cos you did nothing!

Where will YOU draw the line - Must it be YOUR child, YOUR Mother, YOUR wife?
Or would it have to be YOU?

That is YOUR Shame to share with N.I.C.E. and the Government that hides behind them!

Regards and Warm Hands for YOUR Hour of Need,
Greg L-W.
Available to help YOU 01291 - 62 65 62

I just want to say sorry for copping out at times and leaving Lee and friends to cope!
Any help and support YOU can give her will be hugely welcome.
I do make a lousy patient!
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If YOU want to follow my fight against Cancer from when it started and I first presented with symptoms see The TAB just below the Header of this Blog. called >DIARY of Cancer< just click and it will give you a long list of the main events in chronological order.
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Tuesday 26 August 2008

26-Aug-2008 - How Much DOES The Government Lie about The NHS?

26-Aug-2008 - How Much DOES The Government Lie about The NHS?

2008 August 26 03:45:14 BST
Posted By: Greg_L-W.
Discussion
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Hi,
I do feel you might be fascinated to read the extent to which YOUR GOVERNMENT is prepared to LIE to YOU.

You will find on the Department of Health Web site the following statement for which the web address is: Click Here

[Quote] Consultation on core principles for everyone providing care to NHS patients
 
Launch date: 11 December 2006
 
Closing date: 16 March 2007
 
Creator/s: Department of Health
 
Audience: Health and social care professionals
 
Copyright holder: Crown
 
Gateway number: 7408

'The NHS in England: the operating framework for 2007-08’ sets out for consultation a draft set of NHS principles.

All NHS and independent sector providers who sign national model NHS contracts with commissioners from April 2007 will be required to have regard to these principles once they are agreed and published. The relevant contracts will be those covering hospital care.
 
The draft principles on which we are consulting are:
1. The NHS  will provide a universal and comprehensive service with equal access  for all, free at the point of use, based on clinical need, not ability  to pay. Healthcare is a basic human right. Unlike private systems, the NHS will not exclude anyone because of their health status or ability to pay. Access to the NHS will continue to depend upon clinical need, not ability to pay. Unless a charge has been specifically sanctioned by the NHS (e.g. for prescriptions or dental treatment), we will not charge a fee or require a co-payment from any NHS patient. We will provide appropriate care for all those referred to us, within our clinical competence. [/Quote] 
The fact that it is subsequent to April 2007 indicate that these are the adopted 'principles' for lack of an expletive!

Let us consider the FACTS rather than the DoH sales 'Guff':

1. The NHS will provide a universal and comprehensive service with equal access for all,
Perhaps they would care to explain why that excludes certain groups of cancer patients and why it is felt necessary to use money from the NHS to fund the salaries of QUANGOs and more particularly the PRIVATE HEALTH CARE of those on those QUANGOs and elsewhere in the Government?
free at the point of use,
If it is FREE at the point of use/need perhaps it can be explained why Kidney Cancer patients are selected for EUthenasia and under which specific Act of Parliament the State has authorised the NHS to MURDER its patients and on what terms?


based on clinical need,

The FACT that drugs such as Sutent, Nexavar, Avastin & Torisel are the ONLY current treatment effective on ARCC & mRCC and are thus advocated by every reputable oncologist when apposite as a clinical need - the FACT that the 'service' has seen fit to withold these drugs is not only counter the DoH 'principles' but also as effective a method of EUthenasia as employing an army of Doctors in the ilk of Harold Shipman injecting drugs to kill - no doubt specialist wards will be set up named after him to commemorate his clever idea for saving money!
not ability to pay.

This is a deliberate misrepresentation on two counts - firstly it is stated that an individual CAN self fund the drugs therefore the treatment you receive IS based upon the ability to pay. Secondly this is a selective situation as many more costly treatments ARE available on the NHS and treatments for the frivolous, by comparison, are funded to a staggering degree relative to the funding required to provide these drugs to all those with a clinical need.

Healthcare is a basic human right.


Did I hear them say EXCEPT if you have Kidney Cancer - no I thought not!

Unlike private systems, the NHS will not exclude anyone because of their health status or ability to pay.
If the latest concept of EUthenasing patients on a cost convenience basis starting with those with Kidney Cancer ever comes into being this 'principle' has become a lie - further it equates to The Process decided upon at The Wannasee Conference under 'The Final Solution' whereby it was decided to selectively exterminate certain sectors of the community based upon a slogan of 'Arbeit Macht Frei' including those of certain superstitions and beliefs, DISABLED, and others - I'm not sure if those with Kidney Cancer were specified but they would by the terms of the society at the time have been considered disabled!
Access to the NHS will continue to depend upon clinical need, not ability to pay.

Pray explain this in the context of the new policies of N.I.C.E. the QUANGO behind which the Government would seem to shelter their obscene incompetence to maintain and manage what was once the envy of the world The NHS.

Unless a charge has been specifically sanctioned by the NHS (e.g. for prescriptions or dental treatment), we will not charge a fee or require a co-payment from any NHS patient.

So I presume this means that you will honour the 'principle' but have failed to include the statement but we will permit patients to die without treatment although it is readilly available and more than affordable from savings that can easily be made by cutting out expenditure on 'life style' treatments that would seem to be provided on a purely Political basis as 'vote winners' from large numbers rather than life saving for small numbers - to whit: Tattoo removal at a cost of upto £300,000,000 (QUOTE Baroness Gardiner, House of Lords Hansard), VIAGRA at a cost of £Millions,

One must of course remember the largely self inflicted problem of constipation due to the wrong diet on which the NHS spends more money than all cancer treatment added together - just as more is spent on the self inflicted problem of obesity than is spent on Kidney Cancer. Then consider the cumulative £Millions spent on criminal unemployed drug addicts at a cost of £12,000 per annum each for Methadone alone!
We will provide appropriate care for all those referred to us,
I was unaware that my taxes over the years not only deny me the fundamental human right to end my life if I wish but grants the State the right to end my life if THEY wish!
within our clinical competence.

The provision of Sutent, Nexavar, Avastin & Torisel are indubitably within the 'clinical competence' of the NHS - Perhaps the cronies on unaccountable, over paid, indemnified QUANGOs would be so good as to identify ANYWHERE in the criminal refusal of drugs and resultant killing of patients by PCTs over the last couple of years or N.I.C.E. in particular in their well engineered leak, at the hight of Olympic Publicity (and largely public indifference) whilst some 600 individuals unrelated to performing or training were in Beijing funded from the public purse when the cost of sending an MP was coincidentally almost the same as providing Sutent for a year! This of course does not include over 450 individual from the BBC funded most reluctantly by the tax payer!
August is, to quote a Government spokesman, a good time to leak bad news!

Perhaps before we hear further fatuous appologias made by spokesmen of the Government and its lakeys on QUANGOs we might hear The Minister for Health appologise both to the patients and carers who in their hour of need have taken a really good emotional kicking from the very people they pay to protect them. Then perhaps it would be wise if The Minister would appologise to the Pharmaceutical Companies for the gross and unwarrented slur cast on them by his staff both in and out of QUANGOs and fatuous idiotic spokesmen like Paul Flynn who was so very ready to pontificate on a subject on which, as is so often, he knew virtually nothing.

If The Minister and his staff are incompetent to negotiate with the Pharmaceutical Companies may I suggest they resign. I have found both Pfizer and Bayer incredibly willing to assist, negotiate and co-operate and it was patients and Oncologists who so far have negotiated the first course FREE and all the trials - whilst N.I.C.E. and the other parasites feeding off our disease funded and rewarded themselves for an achievement of shame on a budget of £30,000,000.

The Minister's final act had he integrity would be to demand the resignation without compensation or pension and a refusal to rehire in any Government Department or QUANGO all those who have brought about this despicable situation that leavs any honourable Minister with absolutely no option but to resign his office and from politics putting his seat up for election. No man of honour could possibly continue in public office let alone public employ under the circumstances but we must remember that in a septic tank it is not only the scum that rises and I would hazard a guess that The Minister and his staff will prove it.


The great tragedy is that there are times when I am ashamed to be British albeit I'm also concerned as I have Kidney Cancer although I am in the fortunate position that AT THE MOMENT I have no need of these drugs but I am minded of Pastor Martin Neimoller who famously said:

First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me--
and there was no one left to speak out for me'.

We have learned little since he said this as I am sure he would have added Sutent, Nexavar, Avastin & Torisel had he been here today.

Where will YOU draw the line?

Regards,
Greg L-W.


I just want to say sorry for copping out at times and leaving Lee and friends to cope!
Any help and support YOU can give her will be hugely welcome.
I do make a lousy patient!
.
If YOU want to follow my fight against Cancer from when it started and I first presented with symptoms see The TAB just below the Header of this Blog. called >DIARY of Cancer< just click and it will give you a long list of the main events in chronological order.
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Thoughts and comments will be in chronological order in the main blog and can be tracked in the >ARCHIVE< in the Right Sidebar.

You may find the TABS >MEDICAL LINKS< and also >CANCER LINKS< of help.
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YOU are welcome to call me if you believe I can help in ANY way.
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Posted by: Greg Lance-Watkins
tel: 01291 - 62 65 62

Monday 25 August 2008

25-Aug-2008 - MAKE SAVINGS from NON ESSENTIALS NOT HEALTH.

25-Aug-2008 - MAKE SAVINGS from NON ESSENTIALS NOT HEALTH.

2008 August 25 22:23:16 BST
Posted By: Greg_L-W.
Discussion
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Andrew Dillon, chief executive of Nice, said: “The provisional conclusions on the use of drugs for treating renal cancer are those of an independent appraisal committee whose membership is largely drawn from NHS clinicians in active practice. They understand the issues at stake.”

He said that if the 26 oncologists are to “maintain the credibility of their argument” they must explain which patients “should forgo cost-effective care in order to meet the needs of those with renal cancer”.


May I usurp their authority and propose that savings could be made as follows:

1. £30,000,000 could be saved by closing N.I.C.E. which is merely a QUANGO behind which corrupt politicians shelter their mismanagement of the NHS.

2. £190,000,000 PER ANNUM could be saved by making organ donorship an opt out scheme rather than an opt in scheme. This being the sum spent on those who are on waiting lists for organs spent annually keeping them alive.

3. Upto £300,000,000 which the Health Service spends per annum on tattoo removal QUOTE Baroness Gardiner House of Lords see Hansard.

4. Cease providing any Government employees with ANY aspect of Private Health Care this would not only make massive multi £Million savings but would also ensure the inducement that they ensure the Heath Service is repaired.

5. Cease providing funding for inflation linked pensions for Government employees - since they are indemnified from their incompetence as inflicted on the balance of the public.

6. Place a ceiling on incomes in Government QUANGOs as few if any of these people are employable in the commercial world which is why they flourish in the unaccountable world of sheltered employment in QUANGOs.
  • Be minded of the fact that in the real world high salaries are determined by the ability to generate high profits leading to greater levels of employment and more tax profit for Government - high salaries in QUANGOs and Government merely produce a need for higher taxation and contribute nothing additional to the Country.
7. Cease giving early retirement and compensation for stress related claims - individuals should be free to select whether they do a given job it being their choice to accept the additional incomes of a given job. Stress in employment is a choice: if you are out of your depth and suffering stress hand back the salary you clearly are failing to earn and quit!
8. Cease providing life style care as a given whereby life style care should ONLY be provided once primary Health Care is provided thus saving on:
  • In Vitro Fertilisation.
  • Breast augmentation.
  • Rectal repair when self inflicted for sexual pleasure.
  • VIAGRA & other erectile defficiency drugs.
  • All forms of fertility enhancement.
  • Treatment of any long term condition for aliens & health tourism.
  • Close all councilling services on the Health Service that are not directly medical.
  • Charge for failure to attend appointments.
  • Cease all concepts of gender reassignment.
9. Withdraw from membership of the EUropean Union as clearly we have joined a club we can afford as we are unable to take care of our own people and are paying £1,800,000 per HOUR of British tax payers money (QUOTE Institute of Directors) and are having to kill British Kidney Cancer patients to find the money to fund the Warsaw Underground, Incompetent French farmers, Corrupt Fishing quotas for great maritime nations like Austria and whilst funding Spain to build their roads we permit them to enrich themselves by stealing fish from British fisheries.

10. Surrender the utterly specious Olympic Games which we clearly can not afford as already the budget of £2.8 Billion has already run to £9.3 Billion with an expectation of a final spend wasted on these irrelevant games of £18 Billion where less than 1% of the population will participate meaningfully in the related sports unlike 100% who will have need of the Health Service where the new policy is to Kill Patients who are too costsly.

I do appreciate that Andrew Dillon on his massive salary may well be able to turn a brief phrase in defence of his job and his QUANGO but clearly he is not competent to the job he is paid to do or he would not have made such a staggeringly stupid and ill considered statement regarding the murders he is planning to preside over.

Regards,
Greg L-W.
01291 - 62 65 62

I just want to say sorry for copping out at times and leaving Lee and friends to cope!
Any help and support YOU can give her will be hugely welcome.
I do make a lousy patient!
.
If YOU want to follow my fight against Cancer from when it started and I first presented with symptoms see The TAB just below the Header of this Blog. called >DIARY of Cancer< just click and it will give you a long list of the main events in chronological order.
.
Thoughts and comments will be in chronological order in the main blog and can be tracked in the >ARCHIVE< in the Right Sidebar.

You may find the TABS >MEDICAL LINKS< and also >CANCER LINKS< of help.
.
YOU are welcome to call me if you believe I can help in ANY way.
.
Posted by: Greg Lance-Watkins
tel: 01291 - 62 65 62

25-Aug-2008 - A CYNICAL LOOK AT The NHS

25-Aug-2008 - A CYNICAL LOOK AT The NHS

2008 August 25 01:13:35 BST
Posted By: Greg_L-W.
Discussion
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Hi,

I've just put this on the Cancer Research comments section on their web site:
http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org ... comment-537

Quote: I HAVE THE ANSWER


May I suggest that if you are worried that you have or may get Kidney Cancer and need to claim on your Health Service:-
Make sure you are on a Government QUANGO the beauty of the job is that the Government doesn't believe in the Health Service and provides all its senior staff with PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE!

Also the Government doesn't believe in the Public Pension Service so it gives all its Staff prefferential INFLATION LINKED PENSIONS to compensate for the c*ck up they know they will make in Government.

Also Government staff on QUANGOs are not held accountable for mistakes just put all the data you can find on your provided Lap Top and lose it like the MoD do having lost over 700 to date!
If you want more expenses just loose your CD with all the records on them and claim for a larger sum.
Perhaps you have been away for the last month in Beijing with the other QUANGO members and 650 people funded from the public purse who had NO relevance to performing in the tedious and obscenely costly farce.

Join N.I.C.E. or a P.C.T. where you can be sure of no meaningful work, regular long holidays, inflation linked pensions, early retirement, stress related compensation, staff car schemes and of course PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE as of course you can't relly on or trust the old NHS which is so badly managed it is obviously broken.

Don't worry your job will be safe N.I.C.E. alone has a budget of £30,000,000 and if you need a pay rise you can take it out of the drug budget and kill off a few more Cancer Patients - they're a nuisance anyway they just won't die quietly they are just selfish - next they will start demonstrating but never mind the Government is on your side on a QHANGO so the State Police will be called in under the terrorism laws we can just murder them - woops sorry Mr. Menenez can we have those 8 bullets back!

Cover your risk - join a QUANGO.

The other beauty of a QUANGO or Government job is you get promoted for lies - look at Blair and his lies about Iraq which used so much of the money we could have used for health. Why do soldiers get health care? They knew the risks they should be like smokers or the obese and denied care!

Mandelson lied so often he is now an EU commissioner WITH PRIVATE HEALTH CARE!

On a £2.4Billion Budget I note incompetency and waste has already run that to £9.3Billion and it is rumoured the Olympics will cost Britain over £18,000,000,000 - Howmany people will the Government have to kill to pay for their tedious sport? Already they CLAIM that due to their incompetence they are going to have to kill Kidney Cancer patients!

Quick join a QUANGO and be safe for life.

Join me at http://www.KidneyCancerResource.com where we can fight this clearly non political issue!

'First they came for the Jews but I was not a Jew so I did nothing....'

Regards and Warm Hands,
Greg L-W.

Have YOU commented? There are loads of ideas there!
Regards,
Greg L-W.

I just want to say sorry for copping out at times and leaving Lee and friends to cope!
Any help and support YOU can give her will be hugely welcome.
I do make a lousy patient!
.
If YOU want to follow my fight against Cancer from when it started and I first presented with symptoms see The TAB just below the Header of this Blog. called >DIARY of Cancer< just click and it will give you a long list of the main events in chronological order.
.
Thoughts and comments will be in chronological order in the main blog and can be tracked in the >ARCHIVE< in the Right Sidebar. You may find the TABS >MEDICAL LINKS< and also >CANCER LINKS< of help.
.
YOU are welcome to call me if you believe I can help in ANY way.
.
Posted by: Greg Lance-Watkins
tel: 01291 - 62 65 62

Tuesday 19 August 2008

19-Aug-2008 - BBC Broadcast Running AGAINST N.I.C.E. Spokesman!

19-Aug-2008 - BBC Broadcast Running AGAINST N.I.C.E. Spokesman!

2008 August 19 13:46:48 BST
Posted By: Greg_L-W.
Discussion
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Hi,

Monday started out by being 'interesting'!

I received a phone call from the BBC 'could I hot foot it to their studio in Cardiff for 12.00hrs.' well I tried!


You can hear from the eventual broadcast that I arrived after the programme started going out on air and was out of breath but despite the N.I.C.E./Government spokesman I was running against I hope I managed to get our point across.

You can listen to the broadcast and judge for yourself until Sunday if you Click Here with luck someone can put the file onto a web site so that it is archived, as the BBC overwrite it on Monday!

Regards,
Greg L-W.

I just want to say sorry for copping out at times and leaving Lee and friends to cope!
Any help and support YOU can give her will be hugely welcome.
I do make a lousy patient!
.
If YOU want to follow my fight against Cancer from when it started and I first presented with symptoms see The TAB just below the Header of this Blog. called >DIARY of Cancer< just click and it will give you a long list of the main events in chronological order.
.
Thoughts and comments will be in chronological order in the main blog and can be tracked in the >ARCHIVE< in the Right Sidebar.

You may find the TABS >MEDICAL LINKS< and also >CANCER LINKS< of help. . YOU are welcome to call me if you believe I can help in ANY way.
.
Posted by: Greg Lance-Watkins
tel: 01291 - 62 65 62

Sunday 17 August 2008

17-Aug-2008 - PCT Policy - OBFUSSCATED by TORTALOGOUS LANGUAGE!

17-Aug-2008 - PCT Policy - OBFUSSCATED by TORTALOGOUS LANGUAGE!

2008 August 17 18:44:32 BST
Posted By: Greg_L-W.
Discussion
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Hi,
I note with some interest the lengthy tortalogous definition of PCT Policy which has been tracked down which follows:
[QUOTE]
This is a typical attempt of a PCT to explain why they are refusing to fund cancer treatments. This is from their policy document.
Guidance for considering exceptionality¡¦ in individual cases
Oxfordshire Commissioning Board decision - Policy Statement 80a

The Oxfordshire Case Review Committees consider requests to fund individuals for treatments which currently fall outside commissioning policies and agreements. A patient will not normally be funded, unless exceptional circumstances apply. The purpose of the Case Review Committees is to carefully consider, within the Ethical Framework, whether such circumstances exist. The key question is: On what grounds can this patient be funded when others will not be?¨ The Oxfordshire Priorities Forum gives guidance for decision making about ¡§exceptional cases¡¨. It is not appropriate to give specific examples of exceptionality. Definition of exception: A particular case which falls within the application of a rule, but to which the rule is not applicable. Definition of exceptional¨: of the nature of or forming an exception; unusual or special.
General guidelines: 1. It is stated on the Priorities Forum low priority¡¨ policies Potentially exceptionalcircumstances may be considered by the patient¡¦s PCT where there is evidence of significant health status impairment (e.g. inability to perform activities of daily living)¡¨. 2. By definition, 'exceptional' may not necessarily be predicted or spelt out in advance. 3. The fact that a patient¡¦s clinical picture matches ¡¥accepted indications¡¦ for a treatment which is not normally provided is not, in itself, exceptional. 4. The fact that the treatment is (or is likely to be) efficacious for a particular patient is not, in itself, exceptional. 5. Consideration will be given to evidence that shows that the benefit from the treatment for the patient would be significantly greater than would be expected for an average patient. 6. It is for the requesting clinician (or the patient) to demonstrate why they should be considered as an exception.
===========================
Individual Patient Requests
Exceptional Status (what makes the individual sufficiently different from the usual in policy terms)

Central to consideration of individual requests for funding is the concept of the case being exceptional.
In order for funding to be agreed there must be some unusual or unique clinical factor about the patient that suggests that they are:
„« Significantly different to the general population of patients with the condition in question
And
„« likely to gain significantly more benefit from the intervention than might be expected from the average patient with the condition.
However:
„« The fact that a treatment is likely to be efficacious for a patient is not, in itself, a basis for an exception.
„« If a patient's clinical condition matches the 'accepted indications' for a treatment that is not funded, their circumstances are not, by definition, exceptional.
„« Social value judgements (the 'worth¡¦ of patients) are not relevant to the consideration of exceptional status but there may rarely be exceptional circumstances where benefits may go beyond the patient (e.g. as a carer) in respect of social or health related benefits for others.

This guide is in addition to the Oxfordshire Priorities Forum Lavender policy on ¡§Guidance for considering exceptionality in individual cases¡¨, policy number 80a.
Oxfordshire Treatment Request Panel and Case Review Committee June 2007
[/QUOTE]
Why we go to such lengths to track this sort of stuff down one has to wonder when we could so much more readily have obtained the original training manual for PCT Diktat Obfuscation when required to hide dishonesty and corruption in regulation documents.
Here is the relevant passage in the Drafting Officer's Manual:
[QUOTE] "The fact that the Patient needed to know was not known at the time that the now known need to know was known, and therefore those of us who needed to advise and inform felt that the information that we needed as to whether or not to inform the highest authority of the known information was not yet known, and therefore there was no authority for the authority to be informed because the need to know was not yet known, or needed." [/QUOTE]
I must admit that I have cheated a little as I substituted the word patient for prime minister in this section of speech by Sir Humphry in 'Yes Minister'.
For EU Regulations it may interest you to know that the Official drafting of ALL EU drivel is drawn up by French ENARCHS, who are, whilst at L' Ecole National, it seems trained in the black arts of perfidy to write any sentence in a manner where that which is the diametric opposite of that which it would seem to indicate!
No one has yet managed to answer the simple question under Law - by which Act of Parliament are The State authorised to practice EUthenasia on selected groups? The fact that the Government shelter behind their appointed cronies in N.I.C.E., P.C.Ts. etc. makes it no less a State decision to EUthenase selected Kidney Cancer patients.
In a civilised society it is possible to judge its standards by the way it treats its weakest citizens. To administer a poison in order to kill someone is an act of MURDER - perhaps someone wiser than I in authority can explain how it is Morally any different witholding a needed and proven drug.
Be aware that - the self same Government which is advocating the deliberate Muder of certain selected Kidney Cancer patients on the grounds of cost efficacy of certain drugs has I understand sent over 600 people, besides athletes & trainers, to Beijing to watch people running around in circles or whatever - I understand the cost of an MP in terms of expenses runs to about £24K. This is the same Government that authorises the John Lewis List scam and the funding of London second homes for MPs.
More specifically this is the Government which Baroness Gardiner assured us in The House of Lords 'spends upto £300,000,000 on tattoo removal'.
Just how can the deliberate Murder of Kidney Cancer Patients be justified?
Any ideas?
Regards, Greg L-W.

I just want to say sorry for copping out at times and leaving Lee and friends to cope!
Any help and support YOU can give her will be hugely welcome.
I do make a lousy patient!
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If YOU want to follow my fight against Cancer from when it started and I first presented with symptoms see The TAB just below the Header of this Blog. called >DIARY of Cancer< just click and it will give you a long list of the main events in chronological order.
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Thoughts and comments will be in chronological order in the main blog and can be tracked in the >ARCHIVE< in the Right Sidebar. You may find the TABS >MEDICAL LINKS< and also >CANCER LINKS< of help.
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YOU are welcome to call me if you believe I can help in ANY way.
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Posted by: Greg Lance-Watkins
tel: 01291 - 62 65 62