True. But it's where I am now and NHS route has been a matter of waiting and getting nowhere. And my condition is a significant life impact (not waiting on an ingrown toenail). GP originally urgently referred me over 12 months ago (condition started 18+ months ago) and it's been an ongoing slow decline over that time. The initial urgent referral was just dismissed over the telephone with "no alarm bells" and a scan (scan didn't happen and as I was getting worse and worse I ended-up having to have that done privately ...). GP has made subsequent urgent referrals e.g. when I could hardly walk into their consulting rooms - and whilst they aren't great at dealing with non-triage telephone calls, I've had a couple of GP appointments which ended-up 50+ mins as they investigated (more thoroughly than any of the NHS consultants).Cyril Haearn wrote: ↑9 Apr 2021, 3:37pm Going private could soon eat up all ones savings with no guarantee of success
And that puts me in a Catch 22. NHS route isn't working. The private consultant/team seem good helpful, carrying out thorough investigations. Their tests have found stuff (the tests the NHS have not even bothered to do like a basic hearing test). I'd love to switch to NHS (and have all aspects of my condition investigated) but they seem to only want "another name crossed off their waiting list" - which I'm finding really disheartening.
So, after yesterday's consultation I'm wondering if going down the complaint route might move the NHS to actually start helping me.
Ian