Implants.

And that isn't (solely) for cosmetic reasons, which is why I used the term "cosmetic boob jobs".

 

I don't think you can get them for solely cosmetic reasons, don't you have to have a medical condition too (such as Josie Cunningham above who had no breast tissue)?

 

But yet she's gone from 32a to 36dd and has immediately turned to topless modelling. Hmmm, non-cosmetic?

 

I don't think they charge by cup size to be fair

 

Of course she might want to show them off, what she does with them after getting them doesn't mean that she should have been denied them. She still had no breast tissue previously so qualified for the implants. I'm not sure what her having to agree to not show them off would have achieved. Surely she's allowed a job (even that one), just the same as everyone else?

As ark said above, implants are not charged by size but it is a set price depending on whether you have saline or silicone. If she wanted bigger and it costs the same, then why not?

 

It's a difficult one - I knew a lass who also had a boob job on the NHS due to having no breast tissue, but she didn't end up looking like THAT as a result! Maybe the NHS will provide me some therapy after the trauma of seeing those photos...

 

Wasn't she quoted (or said on tv) that her reason for getting them done was to be a topless model Jamdrop?, anyway she def isn't a good example.
Personally I think implants or reductions should be available free for genuine caseslike where they are causing pain (reductions) and affecting mental health like after mastectomies or where women have one breast significantly smaller than the other etc.
But as with all things I'm sure the system gets abused, same as with benefits some people just seem to know how to play the system

 

I had a dental implant courtesy of the Royal Navy. I asked for tits too but they said my man boobs were already big enough so piss off

 

There is no correlation between the severity of a person's depression and how serious society deems the factors causing that depression. What many believe are quite trivial matters can cause such a deep depression that the person takes their own life. Many people with cancer don't develop depression at all. Many do, but only a mild case and can alleviate the symptoms by talking (to friends/family or a trained professional). The fact is there is no direct cause of depression from external factors and the severity of the issue is how much it affects the individual person, not what the majority of us believe are issues that are serious enough to be a trigger.

That's not to say people who suffer depression are delicate little flowers who simply can't cope. Some long term sufferers of depression breeze through illness like cancer without it affecting their mental state at all. Some have extremely stressful jobs or witness terrible things without that affecting their overall mood.

I'm not arguing that breast implants should be available on the NHS. I don't know, it's a complicated issue that I haven't given much thought to and probably won't. But whether or not small tits is a serious enough issue to cause severe depression shouldn't be part of the argument. It can. Almost anything can.

Something else to bear in mind is, obviously, cost. Many people will be against breast implants on the NHS because such an operation will use valuable resources and the NHS is stretched to breaking point. It's a valid argument. However, in these more enlightened times, most people believe that mental health services are an important part of the NHS. The majority of us have either suffered from mental health issues or know someone who has, and have seen how treatment can turn around someone's life. Treating someone with depression because they have problems with their body image may be successful quite quickly and that person comes to terms with what they had previously thought of as a problem. But the depression may continue for years/indefinitely and the cost of treatment will be far more than the cost of breast implants.

Although, to cloud the issue still further, breast implants may not alleviate a person's depression as the underlying cause was not that at all and they just blamed all their problems on having small tits.