In a crunch Commons debate, a demand will be made for a pipeline of CF "wonder drugs" produced by US firm Vertex be made available. Campaigners are pleading with MPs across the country to attend the Commons session and to do all they can to give sufferers of the lung disease access to the vital treatments. Vertex, which makes the lifesaving drug Orkambi, refused the NHS's £500million offer last July and also quit the formal appraisal processes of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.
But, thanks to the Daily Express's crusade, all three sides have recently returned to the negotiating table.
The issue will be debated in the Commons after Parliament received a 100,000-name petition, backed by the Daily Express, demanding action.
Pressure The Cystic Fibrosis Trust says it expects the Petitions Committee to announce the date of the Commons debate this week.
It is likely to be in June or July. Our readers have been writing in their thousands asking their local MP to be there in an attempt to make Orkambi available on the NHS.
We have provided a cut-out letter for supporters to fill in and post to their MP.
Now we are calling on all MPs to pile on more political pressure to win justice for Britain's 10,000 cystic fibrosis sufferers and their families.
Nick Medhurst, head of policy at the
