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thefreeprisoner
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I must say here that despite all its faults I DO love the NHS and my treatment has improved over the years. (For example, when I was little and tore the cartilage in my knee, I was told that there were no funds for me to see a physiotherapist. But when I reinjured the knee in 2008, I was offered physio straight away and completed a full course of it in 6 weeks to full recovery. Marvellous.)
The problem for us Brits is that the NHS is bound by the rules that the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (or NICE, a misnomer if there ever was one) set down.
The reason? It would be an unfair use of public money to deny a cancer sufferer a life-saving course of drugs and yet pay for a model to have a nose job. There has to be some sort of standard, which is what NICE is there for. Unfortunately, they make some very odd decisions. That's why were all in this mess because GPs are scared to go outside of the guidelines handed down to them - they could get fired and not be able to practise medicine again. Personally I blame the people at the top, not the GPs.
Rachel xx
The problem for us Brits is that the NHS is bound by the rules that the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (or NICE, a misnomer if there ever was one) set down.
The reason? It would be an unfair use of public money to deny a cancer sufferer a life-saving course of drugs and yet pay for a model to have a nose job. There has to be some sort of standard, which is what NICE is there for. Unfortunately, they make some very odd decisions. That's why were all in this mess because GPs are scared to go outside of the guidelines handed down to them - they could get fired and not be able to practise medicine again. Personally I blame the people at the top, not the GPs.
Rachel xx