Restricting access to non-urgent services

We don’t normally publish items that are not totally about Twerton or its residents on these pages but the issue below affects most residents or their families.

Please take some time to read the article from Bath & North East Somerset clinical commisioning groupand respond to the consultation.

There is unprecedented demand on health services in B&NES, which is putting huge pressure on the NHS budget. To be able to live within our means, we must consider introducing restrictions to non-urgent services.

We are proposing to stop funding male vasectomies and female sterilisations, and introduce new access criteria for fertility treatment.

We want to hear what you think of these proposals. Please fill in our vasectomy and sterilisation survey here and our fertility services survey here.