Frank Dobson dead

[Nearly Sane]

Met him a couple of times, good fun.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-50391439

[SteveH]

Pity - decent bloke.

[ad_orientem]

Pity - decent bloke.

I got that impression too.

[Harrowby Hall]

I do have one complaint about Frank Dobson. When he was Secretary of Sate for Health he decided that Sildenafil and similar PDE5 inhibitors would not be available on NHS prescription (except for a small number of specific complaints) but only on private prescription.

I suspect he thought that demand would bankrupt the NHS. Even now, when Sildenafil can be produced as a generic, it is still only available privately. Surely, if women can be provided with free oral contraception then men should be similarly provided with free anti erectile dysfunction drugs.

[Nearly Sane]

I do have one complaint about Frank Dobson. When he was Secretary of Sate for Health he decided that Sildenafil and similar PDE5 inhibitors would not be available on NHS prescription (except for a small number of specific complaints) but only on private prescription.

I suspect he thought that demand would bankrupt the NHS. Even now, when Sildenafil can be produced as a generic, it is still only available privately. Surely, if women can be provided with free oral contraception then men should be similarly provided with free anti erectile dysfunction drugs.

So your complaint is that the Health Secretary decided against something he thought would bankrupt the NHS?

[Harrowby Hall]

His decision meant that a married man had to pay to have a sexual relationship with his wife.

[Nearly Sane]

His decision meant that a married man had to pay to have a sexual relationship with his wife.

Well you mean some not all as your post suggests, but are you really saying bankrupting the NHS was fine with you?

[SteveH]

His decision meant that a married man had to pay to have a sexual relationship with his wife.

They could always follow the example of the policeman from Paddington Junction whose organ had long ceased to function, and who deceived his poor wife for the rest of her life by intelligent use of his truncheon.
I don't think erectile dysfunction is importsant enough to get very expensive treatment on the NHS for. It's not painful, disabling or life-threatening.

[Robbie]

Yes.
Can't be compared with contraception, that benefits both halves of a couple.

If a chap has ED the first thing usually be investigated by a urologist, if drugs are indicated he'd be prescribed them.

There's more than one way of making love, it doesn't have to be penetrative.