Oxford Brookes law lecturer Richard Ramsey is fortunate to be married to a Danish national. It means he was able to take advantage of the Danish health system and get access to a life-prolonging drug to treat his cancer.
It is shocking that access to cancer-treating drugs can be governed by a postcode. It is almost more shocking to think that your access to treatment could depend on who you married.
In recent months, we have highlighted a number of cases where patients' access to drugs has depended on where they live.
It is scandalous that our national government can preside over a system that allows a citizen's access to treatment to depend on where they live. It is the sort of discrimination that would be a civil or even criminal offence in other walks of life.
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