Equity of access toand funding of services for individuals with cancer is primarily the responsibilityof NHS boards to plan, in the light of the needs of their resident population, fromthe unified budgets which are made available to them from the Scottish Executive.The remit of the ScottishMedicines Consortium (SMC) is to provide advice to NHS boards and their areadrug and therapeutics committees (ADTCs) across Scotland about the status of allnewly licensed medicines, all new...