NHS medical director Professor Sir Stephen Powis told The Telegraph that the 'crackdown' on procedures funded by the NHS was to help improve the institution's efficiency, and prevent wasting money 'from the public purse'.Hurrah! Right?
It follows years of plans being drawn up to cut NHS costs.Plans that are never ever put into place, or when they actually are, don't achieve the desired result.
So...why would this one be any more successful?
The new list, which includes circumcisions, tummy tucks and liposuction is the third that the NHS has made a bid to reduce costs.
OK, so what's the catch?
Created by NHS bosses and medics from the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, the plan states that the procedures should only be performed via NHS funding if specific criteria have been met. Each year the NHS in England performs 23,000 circumcisions, more than 1,000 now liposuction operations and more than 500 tummy tucks.
The drafted guidance says that liposuction and tummy tucks should not be done for cosmetic purposes, with circumcisions only being funded to treat medial (sic) problems, the newspaper reported.
There you go. Desires for these procedures will simply be reclassified as medical problems for the patient, and the NHS will then perform them.
The big problem with the NHS is the over abundance of over paid bosses, cut the numbers by 90% and there would still be too many and not enough home grown workers that actually speak and understand English. Fix those two things and the NHS might get back to what it was in the 50s.
ReplyDeleteWe had to pay for our child's circumcision ourselves and I'm very glad we did. It might have cost us few hundred pounds but we got the job done by an extremely competent, fully trained urology specialist rather than a doctor who didn't do such things very often and who as an NHS employee might be incompetent.
ReplyDeleteIt will be mental health probelms, won't it
ReplyDeleteI'm fat and it's affecting my mental health. Ok, liposuctions all round!
You won't believe how much money is wasted like this!
ReplyDeleteA friend had a stomach band operation - she paid for it herself, a whopping €10,000.
Afterwards she joined a support group that was full of ladies that had the same op on the NHS. Because they had invested nothing in the op they had no incentive (like my friend) to control their diet afterwards.
Some of them boasted that they were liquidising Mars Bars and drinking them yet complaining they had not lost any weight.
I'm delighted to say that my friend did control her diet, has made a full recovery and the op has transformed her life - and her figure!
No more child mutilations on the NHS budget is a step in the right direction. However this might lead to backstreet mutilations or worse if some low hanging fruits from other cultures residing in the UK, either legally or illegally, try a DIY at home. Not advocating for any of that, just taking account of the ineptitude of some humans.
ReplyDeleteWhen the grannies have been at Fatima's genitals with a razor blade, they can then have a look at Abdul. What can go wrong?
ReplyDeleteI understand the Jewish society has a well tried system for circumcision of boys which has lasted through the years, without the help of granny.
Mind you, circumcision is a horrible operation. I had it done when I was 4 days old, and I couldn't walk for a year!
Penseivat
When I had my one and only stay in hospital as an in patient, I was kept in for almost a week after having recovered as I was still having twice daily injections of antibiotics. I asked if I could be discharged and have the remaining injections as an out patient, some positive noises were made but nothing came of it. Once I had the last injection, first thing in the morning, it took the entire day before I could get discharged. If this kind of inefficiency is multiplied throughout the whole organisation, how much scope for savings is there everywhere? I should add that I was very well cared for and my local surgery provides an excellent service.
ReplyDelete"The big problem with the NHS is the over abundance of over paid bosses..."
ReplyDeleteNot to mention the plethora of 'diversity' posts.
"...rather than a doctor who didn't do such things very often and who as an NHS employee might be incompetent."
I wonder just how many NHS operations of this sort go wrong?
"It will be mental health probelms, won't it"
Spot on!
"Because they had invested nothing in the op they had no incentive (like my friend) to control their diet afterwards."
/facepalm
"However this might lead to backstreet mutilations or worse if some low hanging fruits from other cultures residing in the UK..."
Which the NHS is then duty-bound to repair...
"I had it done when I was 4 days old, and I couldn't walk for a year!"
😂
"If this kind of inefficiency is multiplied throughout the whole organisation..."
I can assure you there's no 'if' about it...