Wondering what people's thoughts are on this. My NHS healthcare trust is point blank refusing to offer me surgery for a condition that is normally fixed by surgery that almost everyone agrees that all the clinical signs are present for. They want to "do nothing". The problem is causing issues and pain and there is no way forwards from this opinion. I have reached the end point with my healthcare trust.
I have asked to be referred through patient choices for a second opinion but the issue is now causing so much pain and physical damage that I'll probably end up paying for surgery privately because its taken so long to get to this stage. Around £6k. I can afford it, but obviously I'd rather not take 6k out of my savings for something that just about anyone else would get surgery for. I should also point out that I'm not a smoker and not overweight, and even my GP surgery can't understand it. But no-one is doing anything about it. My GP is quite frustrated but can't really do anything. I had a private consultation and the surgeon said that the surgery in my case has a 99% success rate and he can't understand why I wasn't offered it by the NHS. It affects my mobility and therefore my ability to work. Yes, I will complain to the Ombudsman but realistically it will be many months before they even look at my case, never mind do anything about it.
What on earth do you do in practical terms if your NHS healthcare trust simply refuses to operate? I do think its probably a bit sexist as it appears that statistically men are more likely to get this (non-sex related) surgery than women in my trust and some of the written responses I have had display quite a bias and stereotypical thinking about women and at a couple of points, delve into the realms of fiction in inventing reasons for the issue (it occurred due to a an accident, they wrongly claim its because I'm peri-menopausal and I should just accept fractures and complications arising from them).