Supporting fight for life-saving drug
Published Date:
24 April 2008
By Sonia Stacey, Newbold on Stour
I HAVE been a friend and colleague of Rachel Lawson (Courier, April 11) since the early 1980s. The whole of her working life has been spent in Warwickshire as a NHS physiotherapist.
At present she is a very valuable member of the Intermediate Care Team based at the Royal Leamington Spa Rehabilitation Hospital. The team of nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and support workers treat the elderly housebound in their own homes. The teams intervention helps speed up hospital discharges and helps prevent admissions to hospital.
Surely Warwickshire Primary Care Trust should give Rachel the 29 per cent chance of prolonging her life by allowing her to be given Tarceva as prescribed by her oncologist.
After all, Rachel has treated and cared for hundreds of patients in Warwickshire during her long career and it now time for the NHS and NICE to repay her years of dedication, never minde the postcode lottery.
Good luck Rachel, all your family, friends and colleagues are behind you in your fight to be allowed the prescription of the life extending drug Tarceva. We all need you. - Sonia Stacey, physiotherapist with Intermediate Care Service, Miles Meadow, Newbold on Stour.
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Last Updated:
24 April 2008 3:41 PM
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