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Thousands of people suffering from early stage Alzheimer’s will be denied drugs on the NHS following a ruling by the health watchdog today. Charities lost their appeal to the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (Nice) to make the £2.50-a-day anti-dementia drugs more widely available. The institute instead ruled that donepezil, rivastigmine and galantamine would only… Read more »
Peers last night overwhelmingly rejected government plans to merge the prison, police, prosecution, probation and courts watchdogs into a single chief inspector. The House of Lords voted 211 to 98 to support Lord Ramsbottom’s amendment to the police and justice bill that would retain the five independent inspectorates, rather than merge them into one Chief… Read more »
