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NHS to fund Ashya King's treatment in Czech Republic

The NHS is to pay for five-year-old brain tumour patient Ashya King's proton beam therapy treatment in the Czech Republic.

His parents Brett and Naghemeh King sparked an international police hunt after they took their son out of Southampton General Hospital and travelled to Prague for the treatment which was not available for him on the NHS.

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Czech proton therapy centre ready to treat Ashya King

The proton beam therapy centre in Prague has received Ashya King's medical notes from Southampton General Hospital and is ready to treat the five-year-old's brain tumour, a spokesperson told ITV News.

Senior doctors at the Czech clinic met this morning and concluded they were ready to receive Ashya.

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