Wants cancer drugs available on the NHS

The Southall Labour MP, Virendra Sharma, has vowed to help pass a new Bill through parliament that could benefit hundreds of thousands of patients across the UK.

The Off-patent Drugs Bill, supported by Breast Cancer Now, the UK’s largest breast cancer charity, is designed to address the problem of making drugs that have fallen out of patent, but have since proved effective for clinical uses outside of their original licence, routinely available on the NHS.

Breast Cancer Now is championing the Bill as, among its other benefits, it would improve access to two types of breast cancer drug; one which can significantly reduce the risk of breast cancer developing; and another which can significantly reduce the risk of breast cancer spreading from the breast to the bone, at which point it becomes incurable.

Virendra Sharma joins MPs across the country pledging to attend the second reading of the Bill on the 6th November 2015.

He said: '' It is crucial that affordable treatments are used to their full potential, particularly at a time when NHS resources are stretched. The Bill will taclkle this issue head-on and stands to benefit hundreds of thousands of people, not only in Ealing, Southall but across the whole of the UK.''

4th November 2015