It is rare for the uvula to cause any significant medical problems and surgery to remove the uvula is therefore not commissioned as described in the BNSSG ICB Surgical Removal of the Palatine Uvula Exceptional Funding Request Policy.
If malignancy of the uvula is suspected, then please refer via Urgent Suspected Cancer pathway.
Cancer of the uvula should be suspected if there is unexplained ulceration or a mass that persists for more than 3 weeks.
Please use see the USC Head and Neck page and refer by ticking the box:
'Unexplained ulceration of the oral cavity or mass persisting for more than 3 weeks'
If you do not suspect malignancy but would like further advice then please consider the ENT advice and guidance.
Please provide a photo of the throat with your request. Advice on how to take a good quality photo of the throat can be found on this Youtube video.
Efforts are made to ensure the accuracy and agreement of these guidelines, including any content uploaded, referred to or linked to from the system. However, BNSSG ICB cannot guarantee this. This guidance does not override the individual responsibility of healthcare professionals to make decisions appropriate to the circumstances of the individual patient, in consultation with the patient and/or guardian or carer, in accordance with the mental capacity act, and informed by the summary of product characteristics of any drugs they are considering. Practitioners are required to perform their duties in accordance with the law and their regulators and nothing in this guidance should be interpreted in a way that would be inconsistent with compliance with those duties.
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