Health Secretary Matt Hancock was tonight urged to tear up red tape campaigners say is hampering prescriptions of medical cannabis for children with rare epilepsy.
There have been no new NHS prescriptions for full-extract cannabis oil since the medicinal use of the drug was legalised more than 18 months ago, it emerged this month.
Experts say strict guidelines make it difficult to get hold of the treatment on the NHS. Full-extract cannabis oil imported from the Netherlands has continued to be prescribed on the health service to just two children with rare forms of epilepsy – Alfie Dingley and Sophia Gibson.
The Home Office handed them emergency interim licences in summer 2018 following a campaign. Wealthy families denied the free medicine
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