Women are being forced to travel hundreds of miles and spend thousands of pounds to access treatment for chronic UTIs, as there are no specialist centres in Ireland or the devolved nations 🔴 connie_dimsdale reports
Specialists say the infection, which often begins as an acute bout of cystitis, can occur when bacteria become embedded within the bladder wall and become difficult to treat with short courses of antibiotics.
Dr Rajvinder Khasriya, an NHS consultant urogynaecologist at the Whittington, said: “We’re the only [NHS] tertiary centre in the UK which deals with chronic urinary tract infection. Patients are often given a longer course of antibiotics that can sometimes last for more than a year until their infection is cleared and have fresh urine samples examined under a microscope for signs of the infection.
She is now paying for her daughter, who has also been attending the London clinic after developing a chronic UTI herself. In 2017, Ms Spain was sent to a urologist in Ireland, who she claims misdiagnosed her with interstitial cystitis – an incurable condition with similar symptoms to chronic UTI. Ms Spain said it would be “a dream” to have treatment in Ireland due to the cost and stress of travelling to London.Another sufferer in Ireland, Mary, told a very similar story. She first started getting UTIs as a teenager but the condition became chronic in 2017 when she had an infection that would not subside for months.
“I felt totally gaslit by the doctors, I felt isolated. I had very dark thoughts at that time – it was a really scary, frightening low point in my life.”
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