Gordon Brown promises free prescriptions for cancer patients

24 September, 2008 | By Rebecca Evans

Gordon Brown promised to abolish prescription charges for cancer patients as part of a 'new settlement' focusing on fairness.In what had been described before he spoke as the speech of his life, the prime minister's announcement that he would scrap the charges for cancer patients from April was well received in the conference hall.

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