Donald Roy<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ChrisMayLA6</span></a></span> </p><p>Yes. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/astroturf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astroturf</span></a> patient groups have always been a problem and worse still were enabled to flourish in the vacuum in more general representation of patients created by the abolition of community health councils in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/england" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>england</span></a> initiated by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/alanmilburn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>alanmilburn</span></a> but completed by others twenty one years ago! After 2010 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/davidcameron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>davidcameron</span></a> set out to appease <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bigpharma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bigpharma</span></a> and their allies in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rightwing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rightwing</span></a> media by discriminating in favour of cancer drugs to the point where less effective ones were kept!</p>