22 Foxhole East

greenbee

As you’ve probably heard on the news the post is dire at the moment, with lots of letters arriving after appointments have been missed. I’m a long-term patient of my consultant so I usually call his secretary and cut out the middle-people (appointments, RM, my GP). It might be worth a Google…

KajiKita

Good luck with getting some updates or at least a time line for information from the medicos today.

KK

f0xh0les

I rang the booking office a week ago to say that I had had the scan and wanted to know the date of the appointment with the consultant, and was told in no uncertain terms to sit down, shut up,  and wait for them to contact me. Apparently it does not work like that (peasant).
So will ring again after the post has been (if nothing appears) and if no joy, get on to the GP. 

KajiKita

Wow … that sounds both rude and unkind of them.

Do you know who your consultant is? If you can track down their secretary and then start ringing daily, politely but persistently, Mr KK found that helped. 

KK

Swayingseaweed

You can also ask the secretary if they have cancellation list. We have often got in by ringing and asking if they have had any cancellation on the day/week. Good luck
Seaweed x 

greenbee

Definitely don't ring bookings/appointments. Secretaries are another matter entirely. They are (generally) helpful. In my case I've been the secretary's patient longer than I have the consultant's (the original one retired) and she has always been incredibly helpful... and has similar issues with the appointments team to the ones I have

f0xh0les

Apparently I was discharged and referred back to my GP on 26th. There is nothing wrong with me.

So the consultant threw out the C-word about 150 times in ten minutes. and impressed on me the importance of coming in and discussing my results with her, and that it would be with her and no-one else, and that I must attend as it was a matter of life and death,  and did I understand how serious the matter was ... and then  sent a letter third class, sending me on my merry way.  The letter has still not arrived to date.

The GP cannot book me an appointment until 20th June, so the receptionist told me to ring in the morning and book a same day appointment. 

So, on the plus side, I do not and never have had cancer, and I am in the same position I was when I started on this wild and merry ride, just 4 weeks older. 

Baileys_Babe

Very pleased to read you do not have cancer. Your relief must be immense 🤗

Viking_mfw

That is a relief even if that is a terrible way to find out. 

kerri_gt

Pleased at the positive news F0xh0les, that must be a weight off your mind, but heaven's you'd think they'd bother to tell you more directly. 
So are they still investigating what it indeed is now they know what it isn't? 

I had a head scan last week - contacted the secretary this week as was kinda expecting some kind of follow up - apparently I get my results in the post and the soonest I can see an actual person is July. Which is faster than the NHS route but goodness, postal results of a CT scan? I assume that anything relevant will be highlighted, or in layman's terms and that I am not going to keel over from anything imminently and if it was urgent, they'd have me back sooner.

So kinda positive but don't you just feel for those not so capable of navigating the labyrinth to get answers. No wonder people just ignore symptoms until it's too late.