{"id":42632,"date":"2014-02-17T18:45:42","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T18:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/london_times_hard-nosed_drugs_policy_would_write_off_elderly\/"},"modified":"2014-02-17T18:45:42","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T18:45:42","slug":"london_times_hard-nosed_drugs_policy_would_write_off_elderly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42632","title":{"rendered":"([London] Times) \u201d\u02dcHard-nosed\u2019 drugs policy would write off elderly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The elderly would be denied new drugs under \u201chard-nosed\u201d\u009d plans by ministers that prioritise patients who contribute to the economy, the NHS treatments adviser has warned.<\/p>\n<p>In a blunt rebuke to the Government, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has rejected plans to take \u201cwider societal benefit\u201d\u009d into account when considering whether to pay for a drug, The Times has learnt.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Andrew Dillon, the head of NICE, said that he was uncomfortable with a \u201cfair-innings approach\u201d\u009d that would tilt funding away from the old because younger patients had more to gain from treatment and more to give back.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/health\/news\/article4007774.ece\">Read it all<\/a> (subscription required).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The elderly would be denied new drugs under \u201chard-nosed\u201d\u009d plans by ministers that prioritise patients who contribute to the economy, the NHS treatments adviser has warned. In a blunt rebuke to the Government, the National Institute for Health and Care<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42632\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,104,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}