Why is NHS wasting money like this while cutting joint replacements that are necessary?
Perhaps because there are more Muslim women voters in the UK than joint replacement patients who vote?
Perhaps because joint-replacement patients don't usually sue Government agencies for 'racism' when they don't get what they want?
I'm guessing that you'll get the most confidently-expressed answers, even if they are total fabrications and ludicrously implausible, from Democrats here in the USA or hard-Left Labour drones over in the UK. Both demographics are expert at lying with straight faces.