Individual Funding Requests

 

The following procedures are commissioned where the criteria below apply:

 

• Foot Ganglion ‘Removal of benign Neoplasms’ 
• Significant functional impairment e.g. pain / difficulty in getting comfortable footwear
• There is no role for surgery in the asymptomatic ganglion that does not cause problems with footwear
• Hallux Valgus
• Conservative Measures have failed, including specialist footwear, orthoses and analgesia (+/- podiatry referral ) AND
• The patient suffers from either:
• Severe deformity (with or without lesser toe deformity) that causes significant functional impairment OR
• Severe deformity that prevents patients from finding comfortable footwear OR
• Severe pain that causes significant functional impairment

For patients who do not fit these circumstances approval must be sought from the low priority treatment panel prior to referral.

More information is available here

 

 

Date reviewed                     25/06/2019

Next review due                  25/06/2020

Sifter name                          Dr Rebecca Hopkins

 

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