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in Scotland so perhaps different, but I got told to get a tonsillectomy I had to have "chronic tonsillitis" which was defined as 7 times or more in a 12 month period. I'd get it about 6 times a year, so one month in two I'd have a week or two of fucking agony, and the scar tissue on my tonsils kept increasing so the bouts became more and more painful. There was never any of this "oh, you could self refer, didn't you know?" malark.
On the seventh time I fucking ran to the GP and demanded they get removed-was about 25 at this point-which they dutifully did, and not bothered me since.
Fucking stupid rule blindly enforced by people that should know better.
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This is what pissed me off the most, the red-flag, box ticking, exactly by the book diagnosing that GPs do.
I was getting this monthly, and telling the GP “I have this every month, I am here every month” but that didn’t fit the criteria for referral.
I had to say, to the letter, “I have had this 12 times this year”Every month ≠ 12 times a year.
TooTallTim
It’s a disgrace. They’ve already blur back too far.
I’ve got a neighbour who needs a knee replacement. He lives on the 3rd floor in my building and doesn’t have the option to move. It currently takes him fifteen minutes to make it up or down the three flights of stairs. The NHS won’t operate on him because he’s not in enough pain to justify it. How fucked is that?