The BBC are confusing England and Britain again.  In this story about the poor availability of cancer drugs they keep referring to the UK when they actually mean England.

England doesn’t have access to the best cancer drugs because they’re so expensive.  They are, however, quite often available in the rest of the UK at the expense of the English taxpayer.  In this news report, however, the BBC makes no distinction between the different treatment and the way the NHS is run in the different home nations.

For instance, they say “In the NHS, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has responsibility for recommending if new drug treatments should be provided by the health service.”  This only applies to England – in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland they have control of their own NHS and regularly prescribe drugs that NICE hasn’t licensed or has refused to provide in England.

The BBC’s neglect in reporting the true scope of the problem – ie. it is England that has the problem, our neighbours get much better access to cancer drugs – is compounding the problem because it masks the true extent of medical apartheid from the public both in England and abroad.  The British government should be exposed for the anti-English, racist establishment it is.