The Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF) has come under increasing financial pressure as the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has continued to restrict or deny access to new cancer medicines. In July 2013 the government announced an increase in annual funding from £200m to £280m for the years 2014 to 2016. However, NHS England realized very soon that even with the extra funding, there would be a shortfall this year and next.
Therefore, they decided they needed to take....