The case of mum-of-two Samantha Cousins is deeply worrying.
The sufferer of Hodgkin's lymphoma, a form of cancer, was beng denied a potentially life-saving bone marrow transplant, so far as her doctors could understand, because she lived in Wales, not England.
Now, after 34-year-old Samantha (left) had the courage to create a public fuss, she is to have her treatment at Christie's hospital in Manchester.
But other patients still endure the the gamble of this postcode lottery within the NHS.
There was heart patient Nigel Smith, 62, from Gwynedd who was lying on a hospital trolley in March waiting for surgery while negotiations continued with Health Commission Wales over which operation he could have and at what cost.
In May, Eddie Grant, 55, from Nefyn finally won his battle with HCW over payment for brachytherapy treatment for his prostate cancer at Christie's, a treatment at the time unavailable to NHS patents in Wales.
Former Wrexham FC footballer Len Willett, 66, is one of six sufferers of Parkinson's Disease in Wales who have been refused deep brain stimulation treatment avaiable in England.
Simon Grant the chief executive of HCW answers the Daily Post's questions here.
Patients who pay the same taxes and National Insurance rates simply don't understand why where they live can have such a drastic effect on what life-changing treatment is available to them on the NHS.
They are bewildered at talk of financial constraints and priorities, when it means they, their family or friends are having to waiting longer or are refused the same treatment as those over the border.
It is up to our politicians to sort it out so that our NHS is truly a NATIONAL Health Service, free and equal to all at the point of need.
