An angry mother and local GP has accused health managers of operating a postcode lottery because they will fund only one cochlear implant for her profoundly deaf child. Hampshire Primary Care Trust is allowing one implant at the cost of £33,000 for 11-month-old Ellie Wheatley, from Winchester in Hampshire. But the trust will not fund the extra £18,000 discounted device for the toddler's other ear.
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Mother outraged after NHS only agrees to fix hearing in one ear of her deaf daughter - Daily Mail 7th August 2008
Monday, August 11, 2008
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