[shillelagh]

well over the last couple of years .. ive had numerous hospital appointments with consultants for my eye and the shoulder, physio (till they found out that physio was making it worse .. and then found out there was another injury) and the latest was to see a cardiologist the other week ... which has he said it was nearly a year since i was referred ... and as i hadnt had any more episodes he'll put me thro just to make sure somekind of check where they get my heart to race and check the results ... i digress tho ... in all of this time .. i have not had an appointment with my gp ...when i tried to make an appointment the next one available was the middle of june i was asking at the end of april ....they told me to ring at 8am and i'l get a phone call .. and the doc will decide if i had to come in .. i said thats the urgent appointments not just a regular one ... and she said well thats all we have now. I didnt book it and i still aint seen my gp .. but in this time ive seen a cardiologist, an orthopedic surgeon (3 times), and had phone calls from the orthopedic surgeon 4 times ... had a phone call from the neurologist as well ...

but this one ... last december i got a phone call from blackburn royal as they were trying to get the waiting list down ... and they'd cocked up with me .. they asked if i would be willing to go to beardwood ... to have it done ... i said yes .. i got an appointment and had it done in february .. it felt just like being done on a production line .. same consultant id seen at blackburn did the procedure at beardwood (a private hospital in blackburn for those that dont know) !!! ive had follow up phone calls from the consultant ... had another one of these at the end of june (on a monday night)... he said i'll put you thro for another one .. on the saturday i had 2 letters one a letter about the phone call from the consultant .. the other an appointment for the procedure at beardwood again .. just over a week ago!!!! same consultant again ... did the procedure ... and i was back home by 11.30am .. i now have another follow up call booked with the consultant in a couple of weeks ...

all this is being done by beardwood .. a private hospital .. the nhs is paying them .. i thought the first one was a one off .. it now seems that im under beardwood for this and theyre doing all the followups .. wouldnt it be cheaper to do it at burnley or blackburn or even get my own gp to do it .. rather than paying private hospital rates ...