Quoting Allan Harris <[log in to unmask]> on Sun 04 Mar 2007 06:10:27
PM GMT:
Can you do it on some form of easy terms; snip now, pay later
Mike Wells
> 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.
>
> Allan Harris
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