This questions are about your underlying medical problem.
Clinical Questions
Who can you help?
We may be able to help you if:
- Your NHS doctor or dentist has recomended investigation, treatment or other management for you
- Your PCT (or other funder) has decided that it will not pay for the treatment.
Who can you not help?
We cannot provide clinical advice. You must obtain this from your own doctor or dentist.
We cannot help you obtain treatment unless that treatment is recommended by your doctor or dentist.
We can work with your doctor or dentist in putting a case to your PCT that they should fund the treatment that your doctor or dentist recomends.
I was sterilised several years ago but now I have a new partner and we want to have a baby together. Our PCT says it won't pay to have my sterilisation reversed. Can you help?
The medical evidence is quite clear - reversal of sterilisation is sometimes successful. In cases where the reversal procedure is not successful then some form of fertility treatment can often achieve a pregnancy. But PCTs don't decline to fund reversal of sterilisation on clinical grounds.
PCTs are not obliged to fund reversal of sterilisation, and most of them don't. All PCTs will consider individual cases, but a case would have to be very exceptional indeed for a PCT to fund reversal of sterilisation when someone voluntarily made themselves infertile.
I need clinical advice for a specific illness or other medical condition. What should I do?
You should make an appointment with your GP, Dentist, or other appropriate medical practitioner, for medical advice or treatment.
If your clinican recomends an intervention which your PCT won't pay for then we may be able to help.