More than a pinky promise: What were they thinking?

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More than a pinky promise: What were they thinking?

Barbara
Fountain
Pinky Promise CR Jacob Wackerhausen on iStock
Making promises you cannot fulfil is not good politics [Image: Jacob Wackerhausen on iStock]

The Government’s failure to deliver on its promise to fund 13 new cancer drugs has left many feeling betrayed and underscores the complexities of medicines procurement and funding, writes Barbara Fountain

Since the Government failed to deliver cancer drug funding in this year’s Budget, the brutality of that broken promise has emerged I made a mista