Breat Implant Furore: Protest March

[Philtaz]

You pays your money you takes yer choice.....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16561913

95% of this surgery is carried out as a result of vanity. Those patients who had them fitted as part of breast re-construction should of course have them removed at the earliest opportunity and should take priority. As for the others I fail to see why the NHS should pick up the tab for removing/replacing the implants and the onus should fall on the private sector who implanted them initially.



On a personal note, looks like I may be in for some overtime in the coming months!

[emmie]

i agree, you pay to have cosmetic surgery, essentially a vanity exercise, so it's down to those clinics, people to sort it out. Those women who have had reconstructive surgery get it sorted free of charge.

[boxtops]

However -- the British investigation suggests that there is minimal risk to most women at the moment, doesn't it?

[netibiza]

Why haven't the private cosmetic companies have insurance for this? Luckily my daughter's implants are mono something or other and not PiP, she had them done a year ago in Belgium. She has a 10yr guarantee, so surely others have, and then should all be replaced by the clinic and for free.

[emmie]

Boxy, rather be safe than sorry, why women put themselves through this, is beyond me. Those who have had mastectomies i can understand

[boxtops]

Yes I agree. If the implants were put in for reconstruction, that's a completely different picture.

[douglas9401]

Where money is concerned, British investigations into most things tend to suggest that there's minimal risk unless it involves the rich and famous.

[ABerrant]

"Why haven't the private cosmetic companies have insurance for this?"

Because, for decades, successive Governments have not bothered to get a handle on the "standard" procedure for private medical post-operative emergencies, i.e. the NHS sorts it out.

Why would private concerns pay insurance premiums when the NHS has always taken up their slack?

[bednobs]

i dont get what you are complaining about. these women are on a protest march to the PRIVATE clinics to get them to reverse their no replacemnt policy, not the NHS

[Zacs-Master]

Thee are always knockers aren't there bednobs.

[weecalf]

If there is a problem and there seems there is .The help should be there .Vanity or what ever we as a caring society should never give a second thought to helping people .I have no problem with my tax going on this .It wasted on far less deserving things .

[emmie]

bednobs and if they refuse, which they may well do, where will they go then, perhaps to the NHS?

[Philtaz]

Not complaining bednobs, just discussing.

The NHS in Wales has already said it will undertake the surgery for all concerned.

[sp1814]

I absolutely believe that if a woman is worried about her health, and has PIP implants, she should have them removed by the NHS.

If we refuse this, then we should refuse all treatment for anyone suffering heart disease from a poor diet, any smoker seeking cancer treatment etc.

By the way, I would substitute 'vanity' for 'self esteem'. Vanity is a very perforative term.

[DTCwordfan]

//Why would private concerns pay insurance premiums when the NHS has always taken up their slack? //

They all surely have professional liability insurance and I would have thought that this falls under it. If they haven't, thinking that "the NHS would take up the slack" then they should be sued and made to pay up....There is no way that the tax payer should pay for this - other than those who relied on the NHS, which are presumably mainly masectomy reconstructions and not the vanity-pushers.

[daffy654]

««Boxy, rather be safe than sorry, why women put themselves through this, is beyond me. Those who have had mastectomies i can understand»»

You might understand if you had lived your life with a very flat chest as I have.
I would have had implants if i'd been able to afford them, I never could though so have put up with the pi$$ taking from family and so called friends who have a normal sized bust all my life.

[woofgang]

daffy i would have killed for a flat chest when I was younger....now I'd only maim

[DTCwordfan]

I actually prefer women with smaller breasts....there is far too much emphasis put on the well-endowed woman in the press et al.....

[EvianBaby]

I don't know much about it but surely the surgeries insurance would not be valid in these cases as the implants used were not of medical grade. It would be like me putting a tyre on my car made out of jelly. When the tyre fails and I crash, the insurance company would wash their hands of me.

[jno]

neti, what's the guarantee actually worth? If the outfit that did it goes bust,* what procedures are in place to cover any patients who later have problems?

*oops, sorry