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Why can't I have this treatment?

In a postcode lottery, many patients are denied a vital eye drug writes Helen Puttick

Dr William Matheson, a former GP, says if he had refused a patient treatment they needed he could have faced a malpractice hearing.

Now he is a patient himself, however, and he has repeatedly been told he can't have the drug his consultant recommends.