In message <[log in to unmask]>, Allan Harris
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>Paul Bromley wrote:
>> Is anyone else in this situation. We crazily have been forbidden from
>> referring anyone on the NHS this year for a vasectomy. I wonder how
>> may TOPs and unwanted kids will arise as a consequence of this
>> short-sightedness. GPs across the patch all universally condemned the
>> decision that was unlikely to save a great deal of money, but we were
>> not listened to. A case of being invited to a meeting to discuss, but
>> then having the meeting twisted to look as though we were
>> rubberstamping all of the cuts. Obviously as you can imagine there are
>> no funds for IVF either!
>>
>Even dafter our practice set up a vasectomy service under PBC and this
>has been halted to save a few quid - until the next financial year.
Well, the financial consequences of this won't be evident until the
*next* financial year - so what's the problem for the PCT?
Mary Hawking
PS thought "daft" was a qualification for PCTs?
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>Allan Harris
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Mary Hawking
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