Woman DENIED breast reconstruction afer mastectomy due to funding cuts.

[HelenaDove]

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"wasn’t as if I wanted a boob job for bigger breasts – I’d had cancer. This wasn’t just about appearance, it was about my psychological recovery too." Alison Goulding

@Graphista

the misogynistic comments on the fb page are disgusting.

Wow. That is appalling.

The comment from the hospital is just bureaucratic nonsense. There are too many people on the list so we have decided to close the list so it looks like there aren’t too many people needing this op. Wtf.

I had a mastectomy on Monday this week I am the same age as Alison. I am not sure yet whether I want reconstruction but to be denied the choice for an indeterminate amount of time due some nonsense reason like we need to make the list look shorter than I really is must be devastating.

It sucks but what's the alternative? They can't just conjure up funding they don't have out of nowhere. When everybody is entitled to everything for free priorities have to be made. It's a shame it has to be this.

From print media about multiple scelerosis

"MS is most commonly diagnosed in people in their twenties or thirties and it affects three times as many WOMEN as men.

One of the big breakthroughs has been DMDs (disease modifying drugs) For people with relapsing remitting MS these can mean fewer less severe relapses and can reduce the damage that MS does to nerves. One of the newest ocrelizumab
is also the first licensed treatment in the UK for primary progressive MS. Its not currently available for that purpose on the NHS. There is a funding row going on. But clinical trials show it could give people an extra seven years before they need to use a wheelchair. "

www.thesun.co.uk/living/3549187/bionic-willies-on-the-rise-nhs-operations/

"THE number of men getting bionic boners on the NHS is at an all-time high.

Last year 548 blokes with severe erectile dysfunction had the £8,000 ops — up a quarter in just four years.

And health service bosses predict the number having penile prosthesis will continue to surge.

Funding changes could see around 900 men benefitting from the procedure annually by 2020.

In 2011/12, the number was just 444. Around five million Brits suffer from erectile dysfunction

But six per cent of those seeking GP help do not respond to drugs including Viagra or treatments such as vacuum pumps.

Their options include having tubes implanted in their willies that can be filled with water by pressing on a “reservoir” next to their testicles.

Flexible rods can also be put into the shaft, allowing them to snap their willy into place.

Experts said demand for the devices, which allow patients to have full intercourse and climax, is being fuelled by older blokes

Dr Geoff Hackett, ex-president of the British Society for Sexual Medicine, said: “This is great news. No doctor wants to tell desperate patients to forget about having a sex life.

“These are patients who have come to the end of the line with every other treatment

Greater awareness means demand is going up. Lots of older men are not ready to give up on their sex lives just yet.

“Many widowers and divorcees are not willing to start a new relationship unless everything is working in that department.”

Since last month NHS England has taken charge of deciding who should be allowed a bionic todger.

That ends previous patchy availability which was down to local health groups ruling on funding and eligibility.

@knittedjest

It's all about what you deem to be the most cost effective procedures, and, how you decide to ration finite resources. It's impossible to answer fairly.

If you have a 10% funding shortfall, do you restrict 10% of every procedure, or, do you restrict completely the 10% of procedures with the lowest cost benefit balance?

This is because of austerity measures by the government. They are bleeding public services dry.