{"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/8498.json"},"data":{"type":"archived-petition","id":8498,"parliament":{"period":"2010-2015","government":"Conservative – Liberal Democrat coalition","dissolution_at":"2015-03-30T23:59:59.000+01:00","response_threshold":10000,"debate_threshold":100000},"attributes":{"action":"removing the profit element out of the equation -of what your doctor prescibes for you.","background":null,"additional_details":"There are very powerful therapies out there  which are just not being used because there is no profit in them.\r\n\r\nDrug companies pay  for  most testing  and will only  and I mean only look at  treatments, which show the promise of good deal of a profit, --they will actively dismiss any therapy OR PRODUCT  which does not have profit potential.\r\n Thus your doctor  will only  recommend therapies that have been tested .\r\nThese may not be the best and in 2004 5000 hospital beds were taken up from adverse reaction to drugs .\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n So we are calling for a dept to be set up so that promising therapies are looked at, tested and so that doctors can recomend them to their patients .\r\n","committee_note":null,"state":"closed","signature_count":4,"created_at":"2011-08-10T07:42:05.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:26:47.620Z","rejected_at":null,"opened_at":"2011-08-15T11:45:53.000Z","closed_at":"2012-08-15T11:45:53.000Z","moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-08-10T07:42:05.000Z","response_threshold_reached_at":null,"government_response_at":null,"debate_threshold_reached_at":null,"debate_scheduled_at":null,"scheduled_debate_date":null,"debate_outcome_at":null,"rejection":null,"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[],"signatures_by_country":[],"signatures_by_constituency":[],"signatures_by_region":[],"other_parliamentary_business":[]}}}