Mid Derbyshire MP Pauline Latham calls on Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to investigate drugs fund

MID Derbyshire MP Pauline Latham has called on Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to investigate "an underspend" in the East Midlands Cancer Drugs Fund.

The Conservative politician addressed Mr Hunt in the House of Commons on the issue, saying she wanted to know why there was an underspend when some patients in her constituency are still having to pay for their own treatment.

Mrs Latham said: "While I welcome the cancer drugs fund enormously, the East Midlands will yet again underspend - leaving some of my constituents paying for their own treatment because they have been refused funding."

Mr Hunt told the MP she would look into it "in detail" for her.

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