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Alimta And Treatment For Mesothelioma Sufferers

EDM number 635 in 2009-10, proposed by Alan Meale on 18/01/2010.
Categorised under the topics of Diseases, Health services and Medicine.

That this House is aware that the anti-cancer drug Alimta is enormously beneficial in the treatment of mesothelioma tumours; recalls that sufferers in Scotland and parts of England and Wales have had access to the drug via cancer networks and primary care trusts; is therefore alarmed that the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has indicated that it is not minded to recommend Alimta for prescription to patients despite its known efficacy; and calls on the Government to ignore such advice, which deals mainly with NICE's narrow definition of cost effectiveness rather than the clinical needs of sufferers.

This motion has been signed by a total of 43 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Alan Meale18/01/2010MansfieldLabourProposed
Andrew Pelling18/01/2010Croydon CentralIndependentSeconded
Andrew Dismore19/01/2010HendonLabourSeconded
Graham Stringer19/01/2010Manchester, BlackleyLabourSeconded
Gregory Campbell19/01/2010East LondonderryDUPSeconded
Jane Kennedy19/01/2010Liverpool, WavertreeLabourSeconded
Paul Holmes19/01/2010ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSigned
Robert Wareing19/01/2010Liverpool, West DerbyIndependentSigned
Mike Hancock19/01/2010Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Jeremy Corbyn19/01/2010Islington NorthLabourSigned
Martin Caton19/01/2010GowerLabourSigned
Lindsay Hoyle19/01/2010ChorleyLabourSigned
Stephen Hepburn19/01/2010JarrowLabourSigned
Bob Spink19/01/2010Castle PointIndependentSigned
Alan Simpson19/01/2010Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
David Drew20/01/2010StroudLabourSigned
Desmond Turner20/01/2010Brighton, KemptownLabourSigned
Mark Durkan20/01/2010FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Jim Dobbin20/01/2010Heywood and MiddletonLabourSigned
Ronnie Campbell20/01/2010Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
John McDonnell20/01/2010Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Chris McCafferty20/01/2010Calder ValleyLabourSigned
David Simpson20/01/2010Upper BannDUPSigned
Janet Dean20/01/2010BurtonLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins21/01/2010TamworthLabourSigned
Elfyn Llwyd21/01/2010Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Edward O'Hara21/01/2010Knowsley SouthLabourSigned
Neil Gerrard21/01/2010WalthamstowLabourSigned
John Battle21/01/2010Leeds WestLabourSigned
Rudi Vis21/01/2010Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Betty Williams25/01/2010ConwyLabourSigned
Ann Cryer26/01/2010KeighleyLabourSigned
Eric Illsley27/01/2010Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
William McCrea27/01/2010South AntrimDUPSigned
Jeffrey M Donaldson27/01/2010Lagan ValleyDUPSigned
David Anderson01/02/2010BlaydonLabourSigned
David Crausby02/02/2010Bolton North EastLabourSigned
Paul Rowen02/02/2010RochdaleLiberal DemocratSigned
David Heyes03/02/2010Ashton-under-LyneLabourSigned
Richard Younger-Ross03/02/2010TeignbridgeLiberal DemocratSigned
David Hamilton08/02/2010MidlothianLabourSigned
Nigel Dodds09/02/2010Belfast NorthDUPSigned
Janet Anderson23/02/2010Rossendale and DarwenLabourSigned

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