Status changed for excluded CI conditions

New medical evidence about two rare forms of cancer affecting the blood, known as essential thrombocythaemia and polycythaemia rubra vera, has forced the ABI to change its recently-announced definitions of conditions covered by CIC as they were previously left out of the list of conditions which are to be covered by policies. They were previously included within the Statement of Best Practice as definitions of conditions listed as ‘pre-malignancy’ and therefore not eligible to be listed as critical illnesses. However, new evidence means in some cases a patient's cancer can be malignant,...