Valuble information

[Deanne Jenkyns]

• Did you know you can be asked to be referred to "Any" NHS hospital for your treatment?
  
  
• You are entitled to have access to all your medical records.
  
  
  
• You can request a second opinion.
  
  
  
• Did you know that NICE only offers guidelines about approved new medicines and it is actually up to your Primary care trust whether or not you can have access to an approved new drug or not.
  
  
  
• Do your research about new drugs and ask for them. You will not be told about them.
  
  
  
• Doctors are not god and no one can put a time limit on your life. They guess and they should not. I have been in contact with patients who were given 6 months and years later they are still here because the received the right treatment did not take no for an answer.
  
  
  
• Take somebody with you to your follow up appointments,If you are unsure about remembering what was said take a "Dictaphone"this way you have a record of everything that was said.
  
  

[stayingpositive]

Very valuable information indeed!
We have not been told about ANY new treatments, we had to do the research ourselves and DEMAND the new drugs like Tarceva!