Decent vision means less chance of falling and breaking bones, and yet new research reveals a heartbreaking state of affairs – the NHS is rationing routine operations that can restore sight, by categorising the procedure as “non-essential”. As a result of this misguided policy, hundreds of thousands of people are currently marooned at home with cataracts, their lives diminished by NHS pen-pushers callously deciding their condition isn’t life-threatening. Cataracts might not be “life-threatening” but they are most definitely “life-diminishing”. https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/scandal-nhs-eye-operati...

Thousands more patients made to 'beg for treatment' as NHS rations hip operations, investigation finds https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/nhs-rations-operat...