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Jesus, hell of a commute that is. I’m guessing the busier hospitals in bigger cities would love ship people out to places with more capacity but that probably ends up being more work put on a stretched workforce than just having some on a waiting list longer?
I’m also confused about what procedures that estimated 17 week estimated wait time is for? Considering a collarbone is probably really low down on the list I’m not sure how I’ve snuck in within 3 weeks? No point in doing it after 5-6 weeks I guess. Could be that it’s quite routine so more surgeons are able to do it?
I’m off to the hospital now, hopefully the surgeon gets creative with the stitching, maybe a few waves or a cross hatch pattern would be nice.
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Yeah...ish.
Nothing's ever simple!
I live in Glasgow but the accident happened in Perthshire on a sunny Friday so instead of coming back to Glasgow to sit with 101 drunken arseholes in a Glasgow A&E I went to Perth Infirmary so my 'case' if you will, started in the Tayside health board.
This meant it was Tayside that sent the appointment for my follow up so it was at Ninewells (Dundee).
My GP in Glasgow said he'd try to get me an outpatient appointment here but that realistically it would be unlikely to be in good time so if I hadn't heard by the time the Ninewells one came round, to go to it. Which hadn't, so I did.
The doc in Dundee said he'd want to see me back at the end of July but we kind of agreed that instead of going to Dundee again we'd try and get this sorted for Glasgow since there was a bit of time in which to do it. Of course, when I got home from Dundee there was a letter waiting telling me I had an appointment in Glasgow on Monday coming which is pretty late as that'll be well over 3 weeks after the break.
I've tried to push that appointment back to the end of July but of course you don't actually get to speak to someone in the orthopeadic dept who can understand and do that, you speak to admin staff in a central booking office who tell you all they can do is generate a new appointment. So who knows when that'll be.
However, despite the doc in Dundee saying he wouldn't bother making me an appointment up there, I've been sent one, for the start of July!
It sounds like I'm whinging about the NHS which I'm really not, they're fantastic, it's just frustrating that you want to do something efficiently but you can't because of the layers of bureaucracy.
I'm pretty tempted to just dinghy trying to get seen in Glasgow and just travel through to Dundee again because it was really quick and efficient there last Friday. Plus, I mean, me travelling to Dundee is probably like you travelling what, half way across London?!