A PATIENTS’ champion fears the “rug will be pulled from beneath the feet” of cancer sufferers as treatments are removed from the Cancer Drugs Fund.

Cancer campaigner Clive Stone said he was baffled to discover medical bosses did not bother to find out about the impact and outcomes of drugs prescribed.

Father-of-two Mr Stone, 67, right, has battled 39 tumours in his brain since he was first diagnosed with cancer in 2007.

The ex-bank manager, instrumental in setting up the fund with Prime Minister David Cameron, said: “With all the money put into it, why didn’t they monitor how it was working?

“I was never asked about the impact. I feel very frustrated; it just doesn’t make sense.”

The Eynsham resident added patients were “almost made to feel guilty” because of the high cost of the treatments.

About 80,000 people have received drugs through the fund but a report by Westminster spending watchdog, the House of Commons public accounts committee, said the Department of Health and NHS England “do not have the data needed to assess the impact of the fund on patient outcomes, such as extending patients’ lives, or to demonstrate whether this is a good use of taxpayers’ money”.

The committee urged NHS England to “be prepared to take tough decisions to ensure the fund does not overspend”.