Rejected petition Stop neurofibromatosis being classed as cosmetic. When tumors need to be removed

Patients are being refused to have these tumors removed as they are being classed as cosmetic. They can be painful and it is ridiculous that they are being classed as cosmetic

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

We can't accept your petition because the UK Government and Parliament aren't responsible for medical decisions about how someone's condition should be treated.

You can find out more about how the NHS approaches neurofibromatosis here :

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/neurofibromatosis-type-1/
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/neurofibromatosis-type-2/

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 18 April 2019
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.