An increasing amount of charitable donations online are paying for private medical care.
But Holly has asthma and if she has a serious coughing episode the tube falls out – leading to her “starving to the point of collapse” with “repeated visits to hospitals,” her mother Amy Thomas told CNN. The alternative is to have a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy , a flexible feeding tube which is fitted into the stomach – but her family say they were told by the UK’s National Health Service that the wait could be up to two years.
Against this backdrop, many Britons are faced with an unenviable choice: wait potentially years for NHS treatment, pay out-of-pocket or rely on charitable donations to raise money for private operations. Go private Figures given to CNN by crowdfunding website GoFundMe found that 67% more medical crowdfunders in March 2023 mentioned the term “waiting list” than in January 2020 – the month that the Covid-19 pandemic reached Britain.
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