2008 Felixstowe’s Fate
Ruling by......
Mrs Justice Dobbs
too late to have judicial review over the Bartlet closure.
Costs granted to PCT
High Court judge wants to bring in ethnic quotas over opening up the judiciary
Alzheimer's Society will not appeal court judgment on Alzheimer's drugs
The Alzheimer's Society has announced that it will not appeal the recent high court judgment on access to Alzheimer's drugs, High court judge, Mrs Justice Dobbs, ruled that the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence's (NICE) guidance on prescribing drugs to people with Alzheimer's disease on the NHS breached disability and race discrimination law. The public body was ordered to make changes to its guidance. However, the court did not rule in favour of the charity's other two legal arguments on NICE's evaluation of the benefit of drugs to carers and the costs of full time care. The judgment means that people in the early states of Alzheimer's drugs will continue to be denied access to effective treatment on the NHS because of cost.
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
NICE ruled, in November last year, that people newly diagnosed with the early stages of Alzheimer's disease should be denied access to effective drug treatments ...
Bartlet Campaigners Say Convalescent Care Still Needed
Campaigners who have been told it is too late for a judicial review into the closure
and sale of the Bartlet have today said that they are very disappointed with the
ruling and that the need for rehabilitative and convalescent care increasingly needs
to be addressed.
Elizabeth Pearce, Chairman of Bartlet Care Ltd (formerly the Bartlet
Bequest Action Group), said that the group had worked hard over the last 6 months
to raise awareness of the impact of the loss of The Bartlet, but that it clearly
was not enough to win this case. She said, "The sad thing is that the problems resulting
from the loss of this facility continue to grow and we can all see the increase in
hospital re-
The judge Mrs Justice Dobbs granted
the costs applied for by the Suffolk PCT, leaving the group to find more than £4,000
to settle this court order.
Mrs Pearce added, "The group would like to extend its
appreciation for the financial and moral support they have received form local companies
and individual supporters. Without their support we would not have made it this far.
Bartlet Campaigners Say Convalescent Care Still Needed
Carers who save the Government billions were saddened by the denial of effective drug treatment by the NHS for Alzheimer’s costing only £2.50 per day