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January 11th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
By
Fiona Macrae
Last updated at 11:07 PM on 10th January 2012
Women caught up in the breast implant scandal in Wales will be able to have them removed and replaced at public expense – while patients in the rest of the UK face paying thousands of pounds.
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley cleared the way on Friday for all women who want PIP implants removed to have it done, by saying private clinics have a ‘moral duty’ to take them out, and if they won’t the NHS will step in.
However, the pledge doesn’t include the replacement of implants for private patients.
Announcement: The Welsh Government has promised that all women fitted with PIP implants can have replacement operations on the NHS
But yesterday afternoon, the Welsh government promised that all women fitted with the implants can have replacement operations – even if their cosmetic surgery was carried out privately.
Critics accused the Welsh government, which has already abolished prescription and hospital car parking charges, of trying to sabotage Westminster’s attempts to make private clinics pay for their mistakes.
Some clinics say it could take weeks to contact all their patients while others warned some women would prove impossible to find.
Some 50,000 British women, including 2,000 in Wales, have the French-made implants which are filled with industrial-grade silicone.
The Welsh government’s health minister Lesley Griffiths said not replacing the PIP implants could put women at unnecessary risk.
Faulty: The implants manufactured by French company Poly Implant Prothese contain Industrial-grade silicone
‘We are going one step further by announcing we will also replace those which were put in privately,’ she said. ‘Removing the implants and not replacing them could result in unsightly scarring, loose skin, and potentially the accumulation of fluids, need for drainage, and risk of infection.
‘Safeguards will be put in place to hold the private sector to account and ensure that everything possible is done to seek redress from private providers before the NHS steps in.’
In order to have the operation, women must prove they sought redress from their private clinic, be resident in Wales and be registered with a GP there.
Women elsewhere in the UK face paying £2,000 to £3,000 to have their implants replaced.
Mark Harvey, partner at Hugh James solicitors in Cardiff, said all women should be able to have their implants removed and replaced.
Joyce Robins, of the campaign group Patient Concern, said: ‘It is unfortunate the Welsh have chosen to sabotage what the British Government is trying to do, which is to lean on the private companies.’
Last night, some of the biggest cosmetic surgery chains were still ignoring Mr Lansley’s call for them to take out PIP implants free of charge from all women who ask for the operation.
A Department of Health spokesman said its policy had been formulated by ‘some of the foremost experts in plastic surgery’ and it did not recognise the Welsh advice.
The Lancet medical journal said it was ‘quite literally incredible’ for ministers to have told women with PIP implants not to be unduly worried.
‘LEGAL ACTION SHOULD BE TAKEN AGAINST THESE COMPANIES’: KAREN ARTHUR, 30, OF CWMBRAN, GWENT
Relief: Fitness instructor Karen Arthur
The announcement is welcome new for fitness instructor Karen Arthur who had PIP implants fitted in 2004.
She said: ‘It is brilliant – many women like me will have suffered sleepless nights hoping and wishing this could get sorted.
‘I am angry my private company didn’t
step up and foot the bill but I hope the NHS will pursue them to get
reimbursed for the expense.’
Karen, had the implants when she suffered
medical complications after giving birth.
She was told last year that the silicone had leaked into her lymph nodes and she has lost feeling in her arms.
She said: ‘I contacted the company who said it would cost me £1,850 to remove the implants and a further £2,650 to replace them.
‘It is a shame that the NHS has had to step in and couldn’t have taken legal action against these companies.
‘I can understand people are angry it is being paid from public funds but it is a serious issue and is a health problem.’
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On the 9th January 2012 The Chief Exec of NHS Wales David Sissling said that the NHS in Wales must begin to focus on ill health and must also learn to communicate with the public better……seems a good time to start Mr Sissling maybe you ought to have words with Ms Griffiths as she obviously didn’t listen to your advice as you say one thing and she in effect says another, and almost on the same day……Also if Ms Arthur had the implants following medical complications after giving birth then this surely would have been part of the treatment from within the NHS and thus there would be no need to go privately?? But the Western Mail today says she had augmentation, no mention of those complications.
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Once again anti-Welsh sentiment rears its head. How Wales spends its money on healthcare is up to Wales. The Welsh Assembly government is not being given extra money by Westminster, the money for these surgeries will come out of the budget that already exists. Any excuse to bash the Welsh, eh? How dare we try to look after our women by having the audacity to remove faulty and potentially dangerous implants. This article is a disgrace.
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“Victims” seems a bit strong for a procedure chosen by one’s own free will for the purposes of vanity.
Not that I wish ill health on anyone. I dyed my greying hair for years and then asked myself for whom was I doing it. It helped in the workplace after 50 but now I’ve reached 65 and retired I feel liberated and quite like my head of white hair which one can still enhance with a modern style
.A good old fashioned upholstery job took care of the rest.
All the tax the government was counting on will be wishful thinking now we hope.
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Assuming there are definite health concerns the woman concerned should be means tested at nhs point of entry before care is commenced – if their original operation would not have been sanctioned by nhs. Families on incomes above breadline or with savings should have to pay
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Yep but it’s the English government paying as usual !
– aj, north, 10/1/2012 22:27………………..Don’t worry, AJ, it won’t be affecting you English. It’ll be us Welsh who’ll have less money to spend on major operations, chemotherapy etc. I wish people would stop voting for Labour in Wales, but there’s a snowball’s chance in hell that this will ever happen!
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Should “cradle to grave” cover hooters? There is no excuse for the gubment not to indulge stupidity.
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The pure vanity exhibited by the ladies chests who paid for this ‘ enhancement ‘ was done for no health reason. Why should we, the tax payer now pay because they have a fear their large chests might now harm them. 1/ Might. Not, is, so once again they should pay for their worry caused by their vanity.2/ they managed to find the payment for the ‘ Vanity ‘ operation. Now they have a fear for their health it should be twice as easy for them to find the money for a health operation. 3/ Or isn’t their health as important as their vanity ?
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Can we name and shame the private clinics refusing to pay to have the faulty implants they put in removed. Hopefully they will lose customers over this.
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So can the women suffering serious back pain and other health problems as a result of naturally large breasts now get their breast reductions for free? Or do they still have to pay for their medical treatment as its for health reasons rather than pure vanity.
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Well would we expect anything less.
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