A British woman who was denied permanent birth control through the UK’s national health service on the grounds she might regret the decision has won her case with the country’s health ombudsman after a 10-year battle.
Leah Spasova, a psychologist from Oxfordshire, spent years trying to obtain sterilization on the NHS when at the same time her health provider funds vasectomies for men.
The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO), which investigates complaints about the NHS, determined that a local health body was denying women, but not men, funding for sterilization.
Spasova raised the complaint after she was denied a request for sterilization funding from the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care Board (ICB), which covers an area of southern England.
“I have been enquiring about sterilization for 10 years and was just passed back and forth between services,” Spasova said.
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