Directors of adult social services have called for an urgent injection of government funding to prevent support for older people, families the disabled
Little Clover Carkeet, 22-months, has severe epilepsy which sees her sometimes suffer hundreds of seizures a week. Parents Emily and Spencer claim medicinal cannabis, prescribed through a private clinician, literally changed Clover s life and she now endures one to three seizures a week. But the treatment is unavailable on the NHS and the family fear they could run out of the expensive Bedrolite oil they currently import from Holland - if post-Brexit medication laws do not change. Emily Howis and Spencer, from Frome, Somerset, are now campaigning to make the treatment more readily available. Desperate Emily, 36, said: “At the moment it s costing about £750-a-month.