Mum to find £30K as NHS back-out of paying for walking op for daughter, 4
- 5 years ago
Kilburn mum left trying to find £30,000 for a life-changing op to help her four-year-old daughter walk - after the NHS backed out on a promise to pay for it.
Bailey Walters-Lawrence needs an operation called selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR) to ease the stiffness in her muscles caused by the cerebral palsy. The four-year-old has had the condition all her life and underwent two years of physiotherapy to prepare for surgery. But in a cruel twist, last November mum Shermel Walters-Lawrence was told the NHS no longer paid for the clinical trial and so it would have to be self-funded. The 26-year-old said: “They said they’d pay for her surgery and that she just needed to keep exercising and when she was nearer to four she could have the operation.
Bailey Walters-Lawrence needs an operation called selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR) to ease the stiffness in her muscles caused by the cerebral palsy. The four-year-old has had the condition all her life and underwent two years of physiotherapy to prepare for surgery. But in a cruel twist, last November mum Shermel Walters-Lawrence was told the NHS no longer paid for the clinical trial and so it would have to be self-funded. The 26-year-old said: “They said they’d pay for her surgery and that she just needed to keep exercising and when she was nearer to four she could have the operation.