Petition Make Vertebral Body Tethering (VBT) available on the NHS.

Currently in the UK the recognised NHS treatment for patients with severe scoliosis is a major operation known as spinal fusion.

Vertebral Body Tethering is an innovative and ground-breaking alternative surgery, which is only available in the UK via private funding and the costs are substantial.

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VBT has advanced much more quickly in Germany and the USA. Recent developments include the procedure receiving approval by the FDA in America https://www.mddionline.com/fda-approval-sets-stage-helping-thousands-kids-scoliosis and acknowledgement by the British Scoliosis Society as a potential future treatment here in the UK
http://www.bsrf.co.uk/bsrf-research/vertebral-body-tethering-position-statement.

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Date closed 6 November 2019
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