looselips

Just saw this heartwarming story on the local news.

A young British lad is in New York for treatment at Sloan Kettering and his bills have topped $1 mill. As part of a fundraiser sixteen officers (in full uniform) from London have come over to ride bikes from New York City to Rhode island all for this little guy. NYPD are joining too.

A double decker bus and a london police car will go along for the ride. Jack hopes to ride shotgun!

Incidentally the hospital have said they will continue to treat him regardless of the family's situ.

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?se...cal&id=5642166

TruBrit

i'd love to see them, i'd be there waving my union flag and cheering them on

looselips

Me too! They showed them practicing through Central Park. Quite surreal.

Manc

Is cancer not treated on the NHS then?

did this poor kid live in the wrong postcode district?

I love the Bobbies sentiments, but if the treatment cannot be done in the UK at least the NHS should still pay for it to be done wherever the best chance of success is.

You can get viagara and boob jobs and sex changes on the fucking NHS, yet this poor family have to beg steal and borrow cos he has cancer?

Tootsie Frickensprinkles

"Jack Brown has a rare childhood cancer called neuroblastoma, which attacks the nervous system. His condition is considered virtually incurable, except at one hospital in New York."


We have some pioneering and experimental type treatments for rare diseases and conditions in the UK, but not for all.