{"id":764376,"date":"2026-09-08T22:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T22:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/764376\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T22:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T22:06:09","slug":"husband-of-crawley-woman-who-died-at-32-in-cancer-drug-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/764376\/","title":{"rendered":"Husband of Crawley woman who died at 32 in cancer drug plea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Holly Heath, head of policy and evidence at Breast Cancer Now, said: &#8220;There is still an opportunity for this drug to become available on the NHS so no-one else misses out on the chance to extend their lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This group of women don&#8217;t have time to wait. We need a sense of urgency, we need pace and we need a deal to be done now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A NICE spokesperson said: &#8220;In 2024, we concluded that, at the price offered by the company, the treatment was not cost effective, as the cost was too high relative to the benefits it would provide to patients.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;However, following the US-UK trade deal announced in December 2025, NICE is now applying a new, higher threshold for cost-effectiveness decisions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In light of these changed circumstances, discussions between NICE, the company, and NHS England have resumed, with the aim of reaching a commercial agreement that would make Enhertu available.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Holly Heath, head of policy and evidence at Breast Cancer Now, said: &#8220;There is still an opportunity for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-764376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}