Article: Ex-MP in legal battle to keep sight.(News)

legal bid Former MP Alice Mahon

A FORMER Labour MP may go to court to try to force the NHS to provide a drug that could help restore her sight.

Alice Mahon, aged 69, a former MP for Halifax, lost most of the sight in one eye because of wet age-related macular degeneration.

She also expects to lose her sight in the other.

Her local primary care trust has refused to pay for the drug Lucentis ...

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