In This Case Has The Nhs Got It's Priorities Right?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2350581/Why-did-NHS-pay-womans-36DD-breasts-refuse-pay-operation-boy-walk.html

How can larger breasts be considered necessary for health reasons, yet being given the chance to walk isn't?

/// She convinced doctors, at St James’s Hospital in Leeds - a few miles from where specialists could help the two-year-old walk again - to operate by claiming her flat chest was ‘ruining her life’ and causing emotional distress. ///

/// Miss Cunningham, who works in telesales, says her new breasts have given her the ‘confidence’ she needs to pursue her dream of topless modelling. ///

/// She hopes to emulate former Page 3 girl Katie Price. ///

[ToraToraTora]

I doubt this was a one or the other choice. However I agree that cosmetic surgery for reasons of vanity should never be done on the NHS.

[wolf63]

The 'lady' who now has big boobs has been in the press before about them. I think that she had no breast/fat tissue and was flat chested.

She now wishes to be a model - topless, they will have to chop her head off to make her presentable. (bitchy I know).

I hope that the wee boy gets his treatment - he has his whole life ahead of him.

[Octavius]

I agree that surgery for vanity should be self funded and this case appears from the outside to be immoral, but are they going to keep dragging up this one £4,800 procedure to compare with every child in the UK needing treatment costing hundreds of thousands?

http://www.dunstabletoday.co.uk/news/local/lilly-s-dad-s-anger-at-nhs-boob-over-josie-cunningham-op-1-4944466

[Sqad]

\\\\Parents turned down for their child’s procedure, which involves cutting nerves in the back, had to raise as much as £50,000 to travel to America.

But a Leeds General Infirmary has now started to offer it to NHS and private patients\\\

Well, that i don't understand.......they "offer it" but only do it if recommended.
This will be decided by bureaucrats, the majority if whom, will not be medically qualified.
I bet this would be done in Leeds if mother was prepared to pay privately.

[birdwoman]

Maybe she can pay the money back when she earns her millions by glamour modelling

[emmie]

no it hasn't, and this question came up some time back, she shouldn't have had the op on the NHS, if she wanted bigger breasts, then she should have paid for them.

[emmie]

quite honestly wanting to be like Jordan is the last thing she should do.

[mikey4444]

This woman vanity is her own concern but having it increased with public money can't possibly be right. If she needed re-constructive surgery after an illness it would be an entirely different matter.

I wonder what the NHS's attitude would be if I went to my Doctor and said I needed a bigger penis, because my existing one was ruining my life !

Stupid woman and even stupider NHS.

[Octavius]

"At the age of 16, Josie visited her GP where she was diagnosed with a medical condition, resulting in her body producing 0% breast tissue.

After a 10 year battle with self confidence, endless bullying and 5 years visiting doctors and psychologists, Josie was finally offered breast enhancement surgery on the NHS."

[emmie]

i remember this from before

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1228944.html

[ToraToraTora]

Yes, Octavius, give her some breasts possibly but not a couple of footballs up the jumper!

[bednobs]

it's an unfortunate fact that it often costs more to defend not giving operations than the actual operation would cost.
I was once involved in defending a case where someone had taken our NHS trust to court for discrimination for refusing a breast augmentation. We estimated that with people's time we had spent nearly £150k defending our case (for an op that would have originally cost in the region of 2k) Perhaps this NHS trust took the pragmatic approach?

[Sqad]

bednobs...;-)

[bednobs]

stop winking at me ... it makes me nervous!

[Old_Geezer]

But large breasts are always vital. Never regretted having mine done.

[FredPuli43]

From a litigation point of view, it makes more sense to fight the claimant. If one wins when they shouldn't, the NHS will get swamped with claims, just the same, as soon as word gets out. Each will cost a great deal to defend or settle And if they win, that may dissuade other claimants.

[atalanta]

I know a bloke who wants to be a woman, and he reckons ( sorry, she reckons) that if s/he makes enough suicide threats in the presence of doctors and psychiatrists, the NHS will eventually agree to pay. And that's not just boobs.
So a man can get operations paid for to make him look like a woman, but a woman can't ? Even if everyone in her street calls her a freak ? And boyfriends, on finding that her chest is like a man's, walk away in disgust ?

[ummmm]

Atalanta - he also risks being sectioned.

[lcg]

atlanta.....and not having the op. he will have to go through an extended screening and counselling process (i am mates with someone at work who is doing this very same thing).....and if he starts shouting about suicide, he will be deemed unsuitable and unstable - and therefore not a candidate for a sex change operation. however, he should be able to do so after living as a woman for at least 18 months beforehand as well. if he is not prepared to do either, then he will not get the op. it's as simple as that. in respect of the o.p.; i can see why she should have the operation....she was entirely flat chested. the nhs should offer up to a c-cup, and if someone wants bigger, they should pay for it. she looks as ridiculous as katie price (and horse-faced), so she might have a shot at glamour modelling/getting her baps out for sweaty old men.

[naomi24]

If she has spoken to the press before, it would appear that she possesses rather more confidence than she claims. Publicity seeker – and no, the NHS should not have paid for the operation. If the NHS can't afford to treat the boy, that money would have been better spent by helping fund his £50,000 treatment in the US.