cosmetic surgery on the NHS

what do you think of this? should it be allowed? im talking about all forms for any reason

have you done it? would you?

im going to see about getting a birthmark removed from my forehead and getting a boob job when i lose weight (my boobs are also two very noticeable different sizes)

If the aspect of your body that you want cosmetic surgery for is not endangering your life such as your breasts and birthmark then it should not be free. The NHS is for SICK people, not for people who want to enhance their image. The NHS is in enough debt as it is without paying out for unnecessary surgery; that money could and should be used for people with actual medical conditions, you are asking way to much of the system and quite frankly your expectations are unacceptable.

in that case they should scrap ALL cosmetic surgery from the NHS

That's my point. The NHS stands for National Health Service and its money should be spent on improving peoples' health, not their self-esteem.

in that case they should scrap ALL cosmetic surgery from the NHS

FFS

Mole if there is cancer risk = Yes ofcourse!

Mole for psychological reasons = HELL NO, the mole isn't the problem it's your mentality!!

Including those born with congenital deformities such as webbed fingers or cleft lip and palate?

Or for older people whose eyelids have drooped and they need to have skin removed so that they can see properly?

Or women who have had mastectomies and want to have their boob replaced?

Duckzilla needs to wake up and realise that not all cosmetic surgery has a life-saving aspect, but it is still required for people to live a normal healthy life.

exactly

not to mention the people who are depressed/bipolar

its all so black and white to him must be nice living in his whole little world

I wonder why the NHS has to tell dying people on the phone that they can't have an ambulance and some patients on maternity wards have to deliver their own children?

I wonder why the NHS has to tell dying people on the phone that they can't have an ambulance and some patients on maternity wards have to deliver their own children? Who deserves free treatment more, the man who is having a heart attack in his house or the woman who wants her boobs back after a mastectomy to make herself feel better?

of course there are priorities but tbh they BOTH deserve to have health care but obviously the man having the heart attack would come first, no one is denying that there are people who are more in need of healthcare

THE MAN HAVING THE HEART ATTACK DID NOT COME FIRST (This was a real case, not a made up example). No ambulance was sent to him because the NHS couldn't afford it as they spent money on somebody's boob job, and as a result he DIED.

you have any proof that they used the money on he woman instead of the man having the heart attack or is all of this just out of a newspaper/off the BBC site?

doesnt every department have an allocation of cash that they can spend?

you have any proof that they used the money on he woman instead of the man having the heart attack or is all of this just out of a newspaper/off the BBC site?

doesnt every department have an allocation of cash that they can spend?

Obviously I cannot give a specific example. However, some boob jobs do come on the NHS, that money could have been allocated to the ambulance department because there would have been more money to allocate!