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Hep C charity received drug industry funding
A breakthrough drug taken once a day can now cure Hepatitis C in as little as eight weeks, but it's so expensive that NHS England has said it can only be given to the most sick.
The Victoria Derbyshire programme has found out that a charity that tried to force the NHS to give more people a breakthrough Hepatitis C treatment, received hundreds of thousands of pounds from the US drugs giant that makes it.
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