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They are two cases which have been slammed as a damning indictment of the twisted priorities of the NHS. [why?]



A toddler has been refused a crucial operation which could help him walk because it is not deemed worthy of funding by NHS bureaucrats. But just a few miles from where little Oliver Dockerty, two, could be given the gift of mobility, an NHS hospital performed a breast enlargement operation for an aspiring glamour model because it was considered necessary for health reasons.

The stark contrast between the way Josie Cunningham and Oliver Dockerty, who has cerebral palsy, have been treated caused outrage today. The NHS was accused of having a 'skewed sense of priorities'. Claire Dockerty, the toddler's mother, criticised the NHS for turning him down for a life-changing operation. The 30-year-old has now launched a desperate fundraising drive to try to collect £25,000 required to pay for her son's operation privately and walk without a frame.

Claire said: 'I’m a single parent and I don’t have that kind of money. 'I’d love to see him walking unaided for his first day at primary school. 'Even if they look again at the decision, there’s going to be a big backlog of children like Oliver waiting to have this done.' Oliver, two, was referred for surgery in Leeds General Infirmary - a regional centre specialising in the complicated procedure - to help him walk independently. But when a surgeon applied to NHS England for funding for the selective dorsal rhizotomy procedure, he was turned down. Claire, from Stalybridge, Manchester, added: 'Oliver has splints on his legs, a flexi-stand as he hasn’t got any balance, and uses a walking frame to get around and crawls around a lot. 'He wants to be jumping in muddy puddles, like Peppa Pig, he wants to be kicking a football and he can’t jump on a trampoline. Until recently, the operation had only been available to a handful of NHS patients at a Bristol hospital. Parents turned down for their child’s procedure, which involves cutting nerves in the back, had to raise as much as £50,000 to travel to America. But a Leeds General Infirmary has now started to offer it to NHS and private patients.

But the case is in stalk contrast to that of Miss Cunningham - the aspiring glamour model had her breasts enlarged to size 36DD on the NHS. The surgery to 22-year-old cost taxpayers £4,800.

She convinced doctors, at St James’s Hospital in Leeds - a few miles from where specialists could help the two-year-old walk again - to operate by claiming her flat chest was ‘ruining her life’ and causing emotional distress. But critics were appalled at the decision, branding it a waste of taxpayers’ cash. Under NHS guidelines, cosmetic surgery should be funded only in rare circumstances ‘to protect a person’s health’. Miss Cunningham, who works in telesales, says her new breasts have given her the ‘confidence’ she needs to pursue her dream of topless modelling. She hopes to emulate former Page 3 girl Katie Price. The unmarried mother, from Leeds, plans to leave her children Harley, five, and Frankie, two, with her parents while she chases her dream. Her operation was recommended by her GP before being approved by her local Primary Care Trust. But when approached by journalists, health bosses were unable to say why such an enormous cleavage was necessary for Miss Cunningham’s wellbeing.

Gob wrote:Damn, I meant to write "it's priortities"

Joe Guy wrote:its priorities...

Gob wrote:Damn, I meant to write "it's priortities"

Josie Cunningham’s former occupation — that of warfare specialist in the Royal Navy — must be coming in rather handy at the moment.



For the 23-year-old would-be glamour model has been busy deflecting the salvos fired at her from some very disgruntled taxpayers.

The single mother-of-two recently sparked outrage by boasting that she had her breasts increased from a 32A to 36DD courtesy of the NHS, then made matters worse by announcing casually just five months later that she’d like her £5,000 implants removed — at a further cost of £1,600 — because they are attracting too much negative publicity.

It’s an audacious volte-face from a woman who has been dubbed Katie Cut-Price for her aspirations to emulate the glamour model of the same name. Especially as she is hoping that the NHS will, once again, carry out the procedure.

‘I was very deserving of my boob job,’ says Josie, who lives in Leeds.

‘But the problem was, I rushed into the decision to have them taken up to a 36DD, and I don’t feel very confident about them now.

‘Everyone is knocking me, but I want loads more surgery to make me look good. I want people to take me seriously and stop branding me just “the girl with the big NHS boobs”. It’s unfair.’

‘Unfair’ is a word that has been used rather frequently where Josie is concerned.

Critics argue that the NHS money used to increase her breast size should have been spent on far more deserving cases.

Indeed, it was revealed that just a few miles away from her home in Leeds, two-year-old cerebral palsy sufferer Oliver Dockerty had been turned down for funding for an operation which could allow him to walk.

Thankfully, after reading about his plight in the Daily Mail, generous readers helped to raise the £24,000 needed for Oliver to have his operation privately.

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An aspiring glamour model who had a £4,800 taxpayer-funded breast enlargement is to sue the NHS because her new assets are too big.

Josie Cunningham, of Leeds, said her 36DD breasts have ruined her life by making her the target of online abuse.

It is the third time the unmarried mother-of-two has demanded money from the taxpayer.

Not only did they foot the cost of her breast enlargement, but Miss Cunningham is now insisting on a reduction and compensation.

She claims she was not properly consulted before her operation and wants compensation for clinical negligence and emotional distress.

Miss Cunningham, who works in telesales, has consulted no-win, no-fee lawyers so she can ‘take [the NHS] for every penny’.

She said: ‘I want in excess of £10,000. Anything I can get over that is a bonus.’

The 23-year-old came under fire after revealing the details of her taxpayer-funded operation, which came while far more deserving cases failed to receive NHS funds.

Everyone is knocking me, but I want loads more surgery to make me look good.

NHS boob job scrounger Josie Cunningham has been given a new council house double the size of her old one after claiming she was terrified of Twitter trolls tracking her down.




The scrounger, branded 'Britain's most hated woman' by her own mother, has swapped a poky two-bedroom terraced home on an estate for a newly refurbished three-bed semi-detached property in a charming village 20 miles away. Ms Cunningham, 24, told Leeds Council to move her because she was worried about Twitter death threats - but admitted to a friend her cramped accommodation no longer 'suited her image', The Mirror reports.

A source told the newspaper: 'She knew what she wanted so she went and got it. When she started to get Twitter threats she saw an opportunity. In private she says the trolls don't bother her. 'Josie rang me up laughing when the deal for her new home came off and said "you couldn't swing a cat in the old place. I could swing a tiger in here – wait till you see it". 'She's obviously not short of money. She splashes out £500 a day for a bodyguard and driver when she works in London – and her children have more designer clothes than most adults.' The mother-of-three was seen walking with a pram near her new home in West Yorkshire today - just hours after taking to Twitter to berate an unknown man for taking a photograph of her while she was upset.


She tweeted: 'Fuming. Stressful day, sat round my mums in tears and this p***k thinks it's fine to take pictures of me crying!

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Big RR wrote:it is far more likely that this surgery could make him able to walk unaided than the breast enhancement would make Ms. Cunningham a "glamour model" or any kind of model at all.