A parent claims her child, who has a joint condition, was denied occupational therapy by the NHS due to attending an independent school. She considers this treatment discriminatory and a breach of equitable healthcare ideals. Other trusts are reportedly refusing similar treatments based on school fees. The mother attributes this behavior partly to political sentiments against private education, feeling that policies have influenced NHS managers to deny help. She highlights her previous experiences with the system being fair and is now concerned about the emergence of a two-tier healthcare system based on school attendance.
If you discriminate against children because of the school they went to, where does it end? My son faces a two-tier system.
I have never been refused treatment for my children until now. This discrimination against children attending independent schools is unacceptable.
The rejection was part of an anti-private school zeitgeist. Labour's VAT raid on private fees emboldened NHS to deny my son help.
We are unable to see this child as we do not provide a service to school age children who attend independent schools.
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