{"id":1363,"date":"2025-04-22T19:18:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T18:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/brexit-making-it-tougher-to-get-life-changing-treatments\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T19:18:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T18:18:03","slug":"brexit-making-it-tougher-to-get-life-changing-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/brexit-making-it-tougher-to-get-life-changing-treatments\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Brexit making it tougher to get life-changing treatments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brexit has made it more difficult for patients to receive life-changing drugs and treatments, DAUK committee members warned.\r\n\r\nSpeaking in the i Paper, Dr David Nicholl said drug companies were moving medical trials out of the UK.\r\n\r\nInstead, they were being conducted in the EU and the US due to larger population sizes, he said.\r\n\r\nDr Nicholl said: \u201cWhen the UK made a choice to leave the European Union, we made a choice to make it more difficult to carry out clinical trials.\u201d\r\n\r\nDr Matt Kneale, former DAUK co-chair, said Brexit had made it tougher for NHS patients to access to new treatments.\r\n\r\nContributing to the same article, Dr Kneale said: \u201cThis is no longer just a policy debate, it\u2019s about people\u2019s lives \u2013 and right now patients in the UK are being let down.\u201d\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/im-a-doctor-heres-why-brexit-has-made-it-harder-to-get-life-saving-drugs-3652475\">Read the article in full<\/a>.\r\n\r\nPlease support our work by contributing to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-the-work-of-the-doctors-association-uk-dauk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-the-work-of-the-doctors-association-uk-dauk&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1742658988093000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3C2g7K4vo0MhujHA6swNwN\">our crowd funder<\/a> or by <a href=\"https:\/\/dauk.org\/membership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/dauk.org\/membership\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1742658988093000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3rlt6OKUEPJcwIoZj22ohz\">becoming a member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brexit has made it more difficult for patients to receive life-changing drugs and treatments, DAUK committee members warned. Speaking in the i Paper, Dr David&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[81,132],"class_list":["post-1363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dauk-news","tag-brexit","tag-nhs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}