Minister intervenes in medicine row
Press Review 15 March 2005
Health minister Stephen Ladyman has stepped in to stop the National Institute of Clinical Excellence taking four Alzheimer's disease drugs off its approved list.
OAPs told to target MPs over free drugs ban
Press Review 7 March 2005
The Mail reports that campaigners against a ban on free prescription of Alzheimers drugs are urging the elderly to target MPs at the general election. Two health ministers have narrow majorities and several other MPs who have not spoken out about the ban are vulnerable to "grey power" according to a survey in the paper.
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