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This petition was submitted during the 2010-2015 parliament

Petition Stop Expensive Vanity Operations on the NHS

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Due to the current deficit in many NHS hospitals, I call on the government to bring some common sense back on prioritising treatment and eliminating i.e. stopping ALL "vanity" operations. A quick search has shown examples of these to include breast adjustments, ear, nose and even foot reshaping, tattoo removal plus many more.

I do not understand how these VANITY operations can be offered, when citizens have to raise money via charitable funding for operations; a case as example is an operation on Sophie Thomlinson's spinal cord, where health chiefs decided that the £25,000 surgery was too expensive.

Vanity Operations are not necessary and the NHS was not created to accommodate these.

This petition closed early because of a General Election

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