To be shocked BREXIT is going to affect cancer treatment?

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Just listening to the BBC radio news and they were interviewing an oncologist who said that because of worries about getting hold of enough isotopes straight after BREXIT, Drs have been advised by the Government to book less people into their clinics for both diagnosis and treatment.
This will mean longer waits for diagnosis and treatment from some patients. I was taken aback that such a serious medical issue is being affected.

Everything coming from the EU will be affected. People just didn't think things through. But hey, they've got blue passports now, so I guess they're happy

Discussions around shortages if drugs and medical supplies has been going on for a while now so yes treatment will be delayed for some people. I think this is more of an issue than food shortages which I don't think will be so much of an issue.
No doubt a proportion of leavers will still blame immigrants for any delays in their medical treatment.

@SalliSunbeem

Your ignorance astounds me!

So the Royal College of Radiologists are all remainers too and shouldn't be trusted?????

Are those the passports made in France @paap1975? I swear, if those fucking things make it through and cancer meds don't....

The cancer charities tend to have a loud voice and lots of influence. If this is happening to cancer patients, fuck knows what will happen to other patients with serious illnesses.
And to this saying this is project fear. The Government has told oncologists not to book as many patients onto their clinics. So even if there was not a shortage of isotopes, then there will be delays in diagnosis and treatment. That is not guesswork, that is now going to happen.

@SalliSunbeem it isn't what the bbc are saying it's what an oncologist is saying.

Let's be clear here the BBC don't say things - they quote people

This is my field in the NHS. We are going to struggle to get the isotopes we need for both treatment and diagnosis as everything comes from Europe.
Some of my patients are likely to die earlier and in more pain as a result. I told my MP this and he didn't even write back.
I listen to the guys at my garage when my car is broken because they understand it better than I do. Always listen to the experts they are usually right.

Unfortunately with change comes issues and Brexit is a very big change, with it come consequences.

A few politicians boosting their egos and lining their pockets aren’t going to be concerned about people’s health being affected

It is a culmination of things like this that will cause civil unrest & more will suffer

Actually I do believe the BBC are anti Brexit too and a lot of their so called stories are scaremongering. If someone has a different POV you can’t call them ignorant just because it’s not what you believe.

With the announcement of the lifting of tariffs for overseas products, we are looking at the destruction of the last of UK businesses.

There's going to be nothing to live for.

Fizzy - great analogy

Cancer drugs and any other drugs will be subject to the same arrangements and sit in the same customs queues as absolutely anything else being imported. Not sure why people think that certain things will be able to be treated differently?

Absolutely EVERYTHING will be affected, but how? Fuck knows. 3 weeks away and not a clue to be had by anyone at the most central and highest levels of government.

They've been saying this for ages.

Welcome to the new UK - healthcare only if you can pay through the nose for it. Maybe not even then.

There are zero upsides to Brexit, once you scrape off all the nationalist flag-waving crud.

Flobochin - then why have the bbc given Nigel farrage more air time than almost any other politician on question time?

3 weeks away and not a clue to be had by anyone at the most central and highest levels of government.

Agreed, utter incompetence

Flobochin, it isn't about POV, it's about trading facts.

Some of what is going to happen can't be dismissed under "fake news".

This is what is going to happen.

Why are you shocked? Everyone was warned over and over again that this would happen before the referendum. Now we're getting exactly what 17 million people voted for.

Not surprised at all: experts have been predicting such problems since the get go.

But hey, what do they know 🙄

You can call them ignorant if they believe bullshit though. I don't know anyone who educated themselves know Brexit before the vote who voted out. I know people who didn't and did vote out. They are ignorant of the impact it is going to have. I personally wish a pox on the houses of any leave voter.

I hope job losses are as limited as possible to leave voters and that the drugs we are talking about are given to remainers.

Why should right thinking educated people be impacted by the idiocy of 37% of the voting population?

The shortage of medicine is already happening - I went to pick up a prescription yesterday and the pharmacist was talking about the shortage how she got shouted at when she couldn’t provide medicine needed to her clients. Well done Brexit voters !! I wish you a life of misery

Personally I think it is scaremongering.

I am on DMD for my disability, not cancer,, a close friend of mine works in the pharma industry, she told me that meds have been stockpiled to cover the next 6 months supply for all patients.

Did people honestly think that the magic Brexit fairies would just give us all the advantages of EU membership without any of the disadvantages? YABU to be shocked - this was clear two years ago, it’s hardly news.

she told me that meds have been stockpiled to cover the next 6 months supply for all patients.

Surely this isn't possible, there just wouldn't be the space.

Yogagirl Isotopes can not be stockpiled.