A family of a woman suffering from severe epilepsy have dismissed the Government's relaxing import restrictions on cannabis-based medicines, saying it brings them no closer to an NHS prescription.
Announcing the move this week, the Government said wholesalers would be able to import and hold larger quantities of the medicines under the new measures, a step for wider prescribing of the drugs on the NHS.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock called the new measures a “tremendous step towards improving the supply of cannabis-based medicinal products”, while Home Secretary Priti Patel said the move would “allow patients and their families with challenging conditions to access them more easily”.
But the family of Fallon Levy – who last year put their home on sale to pay for the drug to treat her Lennox-Gastaut syndrome – told the JC that it got them no closer to an NHS prescription.
