"More than ever each individual cancer patient needs a friend - an experienced navigator in a sea of bureacracy and chaos.
Kate Spall has tirelessly served hundreds of patients to help them achieve optimal care within the NHS. Increasingly the attitude of those making funding decisions within the NHS is passive. If you don't ask you don't get. And how you ask has assumed immense importance to the chances of success.
Patient advocacy has never been more important than in 2010. By her work Kate is enhancing not just the quality of care for those she helps directly but also the lives of many other cancer patients"
Clinical Advisor
Professor Karol Sikora
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A selection of articles about the work of The Pamela Northcott Fund.
A new kind of patient advocate.
Tony Wilson and the fight for Sutent
Cancer drug access varies widely
Hero helps fight for cancer drug
Kidney cancer man's drugs fight
Liver cancer drug too expensive
One woman's cancer drug mission
Cancer patient wins drugs battle
Mystery benefactor offers to buy dying man
life-prolonging drug
NICE attacked by experts over drug rationing scandal to cancer patients
New Year's Honour for police chief in charge of the bungled Stockwell shooting
NHS refusal to give me drugs is death sentence
Cancer patient saved by £20,000 kindness of strangers
Inside Out BBC Video Report
Britain's heart and cancer survival rates among worst in developed world
Hearts of gold boost cancer drug appeal
Dying mum wins cancer appeal
Health trusts launch 'sinister' bid to reduce funding for more than 100 life-saving drugs
NHS snubs cancer drug plea
Kidney cancer patients denied life-saving drugs by NHS rationing body NICE
Inside Out BBC Video Report
The One show Video Report
NICE 'betrayal' on kidney drug
Mystery Man Funds Dad's Drug Bill
NHS spurns gift of free cancer drug
Cancer postcode lottery: Case study
Kidney cancer patients fail to win appeal for expensive drugs on the NHS