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UK: Medical cannabis helping 'miracle' girl, mum says Paul Barltrop BBC Friday 06 Feb 2026 Emily, from Somerset, says the family spend £750 a month buying the oil from a private clinic, which she said had massively helped her daughter Clover. "She's just a little miracle and we really do have cannabis to thank for a lot of that," said Emily. The Department of Health said the NHS funded licensed?cannabis-based medicines where there was "clear evidence of their quality, safety, and effectiveness". "Manufacturers must seek the proper approval before a medicine can be made routinely available for NHS patients," they added. Clover - from Nunney near Frome - has Aicardi Syndrome, which affects her brain and can cause dozens of seizures each day. After researching treatments, her parents Emily and Spencer got her a prescription for medical cannabis in 2020. They said they were delighted with the results and she was down to a few mild seizures each day. The use of cannabis for medical purposes was legalised in the UK in 2018. It can only be prescribed by specialist doctors and only a few types are available on the NHS. The NHS normally only supports treatments once there have been medical trials and approval by the National Institute for Care and Health Excellence (NICE). This has not yet happened for the cannabis oil used by Clover. The family said paying for the medical cannabis privately had cost them £60,000, but they would keep doing it for however long Clover needed it as it had hugely increased her quality of life. After asking their MP Anna Sabine - who represents Frome and East Somerset - for help, she raised the issue with the prime minister in Parliament and Clover was invited to meet Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health Innovation and Safety Zubir Ahmed. "He [Ahmed] was mortified that we'd been waiting for so long," Emily said following the meeting. "We've come out of there with a really clear course of action," she added. Sabine agreed: "The minister is from a medical background and understood a lot about the issues, so I'm going to keep pushing it." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2y8yp7y45o
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