@hank 

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hank

CONFUSED !

hi to all my friends on shift ms , at the moment i am a bit confused , can any of you help please, i have P.P.M.S. and as i am aware there is no treatment for this at present , but i have been aware off and waiting for the new drug Ocrelizumab . i know it has been approved in america and australia last , and as far as i am aware we are waiting for NICE to approve it here , but yesterday i saw on twitter that it had been approved for europe , then stuff appeared on twitter saying it was approved for here? is this true ? then got even more confused when i went to MS association web site and it said if you had PPMS for less than 15 years you should talk to your consultant about Ocrelizumab . yours martin hankins
@Stumbler

@hank , it has been approved for use in Europe, but we now need to wait for NICE to approve it for use on the NHS. More details here :- https://www.mstrust.org.uk/a-z/ocrelizumab-ocrevus I should imagine that it can be supplied now privately, but the cost would be exorbitantly restrictive.

@hank

thanks stumbler, as usual wise words , but i shall not hold my breath for NICE approval just yet given the funding state of NHS atpresent