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Originally Posted by garinda
This is happening now...
NHS trusts in north-west ban 57 types of surgery
'The axe will fall heavily on procedures to help with the knees and hips, gynaecology (including hysterectomies for heavy menstrual bleeding), eye cataracts and nearly all cosmetic surgery.
The cuts will also affect procedures for hand and lower back pain, hernias, haemorrhoids, skin lesions, lower jaw and surgical dentistry.'
NHS trusts in north-west ban 57 types of surgery | Society | The Guardian
People will continue to live in pain, because there will be no knee and hip replacement operations. Others will remain blinded by cataracts. All because of the cuts.
Scandalous. |
Yeah ... that's what I read. I don't know if my interpretation is right, but I get the sense that NHS trusts are making their own pre-emptive cuts ahead of the expected evisceration by the government. Next thing will be the introduction of private enterprise health care facilities, and tax breaks for the well-to-do that can afford to use them. It seems that post-secondary education and good medical care are about to become the province of the wealthy, with the poor getting the shaft ... as usual.