Leukaemia sufferer treatment debate
- Title
- Leukaemia sufferer treatment debate
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- 11 Mar 1995
- Year of production
- 1995
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- Duration
- 00:00:44
- Description
- Interview with Stephen Thornton, Chief Executive of the Cambridge and Huntingdon Health Commission, on the refusal of treatment by Cambridge Health Authority to a ten-year-old leukaemia sufferer. Thornton claims the cost is not the issue, and that the treatment would be detrimential to the patient’s quality of life. Interviewer not heard.
- Contributors
- Stephen Thornton
- Keywords
- Health services; Medical ethics; Leukaemia; Health authorities; Children (age group); Medical treatment; Health economics; Anticancer drugs; Cambridge Health Authority
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