Please click here to view the full Trigger Finger Commissioning Statement. 

Commissioning Position

NHS Vale of York CCG does not routinely commission surgery for trigger finger but will consider funding (via the referral form) if the following criteria are met

• Significant symptoms which have failed to respond to conservative measures including at least 2 corticosteroid injections (NB: if a patient refuses steroid injections IFR will need to consider this case on an individual basis)
• Fixed deformity that cannot be corrected
• Co-existing inflammatory or degenerative disorders of the hand
• Co-existing nerve entrapment syndromes or Dupuytren’s disease

If patients do not meet the above criteria then any request has to be submitted via the IFR Panel.

Patient information leaflets trigger finger and BSSH trigger finger

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