The NHS doesn't react very quickly to anything much and its always been a question of funding more than anything, and when the purse holders have a meeting with enough time to manage fitting the discussing the cash for medical devices for diabetes for the next year into discussing the funding for everything else!
a bit longer then 6 months later if you get another appointment that qu
I know fine very well that certain decisions taken for both myself and some other family members let alone you, Joe Bloggs or anyone else whilst simply being told placatingly Oh, don't worry, we'll fit you/that in in due course when we think you're ready .... so you go away and just put up with whatever until however soon you happen to be lucky enough to get another appointment and say yet again to someone at the clinic I'm now really fed up of not being able to have/get whatever it is for so long but I also know too well that there's not much point in me moaning about it .... when the listener suddenly replies That's very simple then! - can you come back here a week on Friday and we'll get you started ....... just like it's the very first time you've bothered mentioning it. And when we've reflected on these instances we've usually realised Aaaah - bet they'd reached the bottom of last years money pot last time we saw em so no funding left for it - and now into a pot of newly minted cash.
Despite being asked when I originally saw the hospital about my cataracts which one I'd like doing first, since both eyes were affected and replying that I personally thought one was worse than the other which the consultant said he agreed with actually, when my optician asked me when I was having the other one done and I said I'd heard nowt he rang the hospital to ask about me only to be told he'd have to refer me again and not to think - or lead me to believe - that there was any urgency about it. I was full of praise the first one, quite a pleasant experience though inevitable scary procedure - but absolutely not the second. Felt an awful lot more as if I should be grateful for them even bothering ........ same as it did when they found the time to bother removing some of the metalwork in my kneecap they'd mended the broken jigsaw with which my bone had decided it really didn't want so emitted it, quite clearly on the X ray, quite a different pain, having titanium pins stuck into your skin from the IN-side!
First eye sorted when hospital was very proud of its lovely newish Day Surgery facility, other one and knee when it had all become just part of the usual ......
