Planky1
Well-Known Member
Hello all, Happy New Year!
I started a debate about this topic on my FB yesterday after reading so many different opinions about this in the media and on TV programmes and wondered what your thoughts are on it?
The latest (that I have heard anyway) is that it is being recommended that the government be held responsible for this as they passed these particular implants to be safe to use, therefore, the NHS should stump up the costs for removing and replacing with new, safe implants. But is it the Governments fault? Or the fault of the manufacturer? What about the private clinics that put them in, should they actually be made to remove and replace rather than drain our already struggling NHS resources?
Many people are also of the opinion that tough, shouldn't have been so vain as to get them done in the first place, why should tax payers now pay towards having these implants removed and replaced, that the patient themselves should pay for it (talking about people that have done it for reasons that are not medically related like in the cases of re constructive work following breast cancer) Do you share that opinion?
What about you? Do you have the implants and are now worried about what to do, or do you know someone else that has them? I have just found out that my friend has them, she is panicking and unsure what to do as she now lives in Spain.
It's quite a minefield of discussion out there about it. What are your thoughts?
I started a debate about this topic on my FB yesterday after reading so many different opinions about this in the media and on TV programmes and wondered what your thoughts are on it?
The latest (that I have heard anyway) is that it is being recommended that the government be held responsible for this as they passed these particular implants to be safe to use, therefore, the NHS should stump up the costs for removing and replacing with new, safe implants. But is it the Governments fault? Or the fault of the manufacturer? What about the private clinics that put them in, should they actually be made to remove and replace rather than drain our already struggling NHS resources?
Many people are also of the opinion that tough, shouldn't have been so vain as to get them done in the first place, why should tax payers now pay towards having these implants removed and replaced, that the patient themselves should pay for it (talking about people that have done it for reasons that are not medically related like in the cases of re constructive work following breast cancer) Do you share that opinion?
What about you? Do you have the implants and are now worried about what to do, or do you know someone else that has them? I have just found out that my friend has them, she is panicking and unsure what to do as she now lives in Spain.
It's quite a minefield of discussion out there about it. What are your thoughts?