| Abstract: |  As the nights fair draw in Robin begins to wonder whether GuyFawkes had the right idea. A curious Catch-22has visited his patch. Others in the UK have, he knows, beenscratching their heads over proposed funding rearrangementsfor TNF- funding; one area had decided that it would do thisby funding each outpatient appointment for biologics patientsto the princely sum of £150. Now it doesnt takea devalued mathematics A level to work out thatif a biologic costs £760 a month, then to cover costseach patient will require just over 5 appointments. Monthly.You cannot be serious ... however, Robin's hospital has justbeen told that its allocation for all drugs approved by NICE(the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, or NationalImprimatur for |
