2 March 2014 - Senior doctors involved in the treatment of cancer patients have said many of them are not getting the drugs they need.

Members of the Beatson Oncology Centre Consultant Committee have written to the Scottish parliament's health committee about the issue.

They said the system is \"inflexible, opaque and unfit for purpose\".

The health secretary Alex Neil has said all patients should have access to drugs which would benefit them.Doctors at the Beatson, based in Glasgow, provide specialist care for more than half of cancer patients in Scotland.

The rules on specialist drugs for patients with rare conditions are undergoing change in preparation for the introduction of an all-new system in April.

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