Talk about round the houses

maltrab

maltrab

Administrator
Staff member
Dr refers me to eye clinic, letter arrives and I have to call a central booking number, they tell me they cannot book it direct but will contact the Hospital, who will then write to me, in the letter will be a contact number to call them to book an appointment, I know someone who is already been on the list for 4 months, and they have been told September is the earliest appointment available, happy days
 
Wow, bureaucracy at it's finest (meaning worst). Mr. Humphries from Yes, Prime Minister would be so pleased. Sorry to hear you have to go through all that. :(
 
Sorry to hear about your issue Terry hope it gets resolved soon . I have been through that mill with my old duchess needed treatment for her ears after months got an appointment and then it was cancelled at the last minute by them a further 5 weeks lapsed until she got her treatment. I seem to recall you get a reference and you can actually use that on the booking website to look for cancellations and take up that appointment which is what I managed to do for her but certain clinics don't even put cancellations on there they use them to backfill from their waiting lists .
 
I think in our NHS area it seems standard procedure, it looks on paper that you are in the system and a box has been ticked that a referral has been made, in reality it is just delay tactics
 
When you get the letter Terry I think they send you a booking reference number and pass code and when you you use them to logon to this page you can see if they have any cancellations and change you booking if any available . Its worth a call to see if you proposed Department do post cancelled slots on this site you might get lucky.

www.nhs.uk

Book an appointment using the NHS e-Referral Service

Find out about the NHS e-Referral Service, including how to book an appointment online, when you're referred by a GP or other referrer to see a specialist, and choosing your hospital or clinic.
www.nhs.uk www.nhs.uk
 
Not ideal, but have you thought about paying to go private, I had to see a specialist a few months ago. When I said I'll go private the wait dropped from 4 months to a fortnight!
 
Barrychuckle said:
Not ideal, but have you thought about paying to go private, I had to see a specialist a few months ago. When I said I'll go private the wait dropped from 4 months to a fortnight!
Click to expand...
I have had to spent a fair amount of money in the last 12 months for private physio treatment following hand surgery last March and no NHS Physio until Oct last year, it seems if I had not done that I would have lost 90% of hand and arm use, the hand is still not 100% and I am not sure if it will ever be, but on a scale of things there are many folk who suffered far worse than me with not be able to get treatment over that period of time
 
maltrab said:
I have had to spent a fair amount of money in the last 12 months for private physio treatment following hand surgery last March and no NHS Physio until Oct last year, it seems if I had not done that I would have lost 90% of hand and arm use, the hand is still not 100% and I am not sure if it will ever be, but on a scale of things there are many folk who suffered far worse than me with not be able to get treatment over that period of time
Click to expand...

Sadly there are people who either didn't get treatment they needed, or didn't seek treatment because they took govt messaging about protecting the NHS to an extreme.

Sorry to hear about your hand and arm. Even in normal times the NHS can't be relied upon. My wife once had wrist surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome and her hand was worse rather than better as a result. The registrar who did the surgery crassly said she might have to live with it, but I paid for the consultant to do it privately and he sorted the problem. We weren't impressed that the registrar didn't refer her case to the consultant and instead wanted to write her case off when the problem was that he wasn't experienced enough to have dealt with a severe case like hers.
 
A great way to improve your hand strength is to get a small recorder like the ones they played Greensleeves on in Flower Power Cut and learn to play it. Remember that the left hand goes above the right hand.
 
WellyMan said:
Sorry to hear about your hand and arm. Even in normal times the NHS can't be relied upon. My wife once had wrist surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome and her hand was worse rather than better as a result. The registrar who did the surgery crassly said she might have to live with it, but I paid for the consultant to do it privately and he sorted the problem. We weren't impressed that the registrar didn't refer her case to the consultant and instead wanted to write her case off when the problem was that he wasn't experienced enough to have dealt with a severe case like hers.
Click to expand...
Whenever I've been facing one of my many surgeries, even when it was a semi-emergency, if I didn't know the surgeon I've always asked how many of this surgery, for this level of severity, have you done? Although this isn't a heavily populated area, there are choices in nearly every specialty. all within the same practice, so if the answer is unsatisfactory, I can always ask for a someone else.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top