As the professions, politicians and patient groups scrap over the detail, that is the bigger picture.
But the variation in procedures across the UK has caused controversy among patient groups.
Some patient groups can take their mission a little too far, or get too cozy with drugmakers.
The news has angered patient groups who are demanding the names of the companies and their products.
The patient groups are filling a void in drug research created by the industry's legitimate fear of failure.
Inspired by the CFF's success, patient groups with an entrepreneurial bent have become the drug industry's new power brokers.
She hired a lobbyist who helped unite various SMA patient groups, including FightSMA, in a letter-writing campaign to Congress.
She has also met healthcare organisations and patient groups to discuss possible solutions.
The panel struggled over how to use the available data to identify patient groups that could benefit from the device.
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For many other patient groups, however, the trouble is not too few drugs on the horizon, but rather too many.
The first minister insisted the forthcoming Patients' Rights Bill was in the public interest and patient groups had welcomed its proposals.
Patient groups are sponsoring drug discovery at other firms, including Iceland's Decode Genetics and England's Oxford BioMedica, which is plying a gene-therapy approach.
Meanwhile, councils have had to set up health and wellbeing boards that include representatives from CCGs, hospitals and patient groups as well as councillors.
It was recommitted to Parliament in July after the government made a series of changes following widespread anger among NHS professionals and patient groups.
"They're known as 'preservision, ' " she said, noting that they are commonly given to certain patient groups to slow their progression to advanced macular degeneration.
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The bill was recommitted to Parliament in July after the government made a series of changes following widespread anger among NHS professionals and patient groups.
Brawley has come to see how the better patient groups evolve.
But patient groups said the figures were concerning for other reasons.
Part of the key would be that the drug would sell itself--perhaps by getting buzz on the science of the medicine among doctors and patient groups.
The first minister said the delay was caused by extensive consultation with patient groups to ensure the forms and procedures properly reflected the needs of the people involved.
The bill was recommitted to Parliament in July after the government made a series of changes following widespread anger among NHS professionals and patient groups at the plans.
Professor Ian Gilmore, president of the Royal College of Physicians, was tasked with considering which patient groups should be exempt from charges and how the changes should be implemented.
But some doctors are worried that harm will spill over to other patient groups, given the rampant off-label use of antipsychotics for treating ailments such as depression, Alzheimer's symptoms and anorexia.
Patient groups accused Schering of putting profits before care.
By becoming a one-stop source for expertise and research about their disease, these patient groups can use as little as a few million dollars in funding to shift the priorities of the drug industry.
The bill, which contains the government's health service reform plans in England, was recommitted to Parliament in July after the government made a series of changes following widespread anger among NHS professionals and patient groups.
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The Bill was being scrutinised in the Commons report stage debate, after the initial proposals were sent back to a committee of MPs following the government's "pause" in legislation which followed criticism from health professionals and patient groups.
The bill, which contains the government's health service reform plans in England, was sent back for a second Commons committee stage in July after the government made a series of changes following widespread anger among NHS professionals and patient groups.
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