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Nineteen months on a tier three waiting list

Started 6 May 2025 · 14 replies · 140 hearts · read 1.7k times

OssieWolverhampton, UK · 6 May 2025
about a year ago

Nineteen months on a tier three waiting list — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

Anyone else here in my part of the world? I would like to compare notes.

I have read the guides and they are good, and they are necessarily general, and my question is entirely about local specifics.

Supply where I am has been unpredictable and I would like to know what other people locally have been told.

I am some distance from anywhere and every arrangement I have made is shaped by that, and most of what is written assumes otherwise.

I have checked my notes before posting, so nineteen months is accurate rather than the impression I had been carrying around.

Any local detail gratefully received, however small. The small things are what nobody writes down.

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OsgarKillarney, IE
#1

My GP referred me and then nothing happened for seven months, and one phone call to the service found that the referral had never arrived.

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TorinBelfast, NI
#2

Osgar, thank you for that. It gives me somewhere to start from.

What I found is that the criteria vary by area more than anybody admits, and my neighbouring trust had a completely different pathway.

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WellsChester, UK
#3

Holding this with you rather than answering it.

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#4

Speaking as a facilitator: comparing systems is interesting and rarely actionable. The question asked was about one system and deserves an answer about that one.

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BelCroydon, UK
#5

Nothing here is medical advice and local pathways change, so the person at your practice will always know more than any thread.

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EdwynNewcastle, UK
#6

The travel to the specialist centre was the main cost for me and moving to telephone reviews solved most of it.

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BramSheffield, UK
#7

Edwyn said something I want to sit with for a second.

The waiting list where I am was quoted at eighteen months and turned out to be closer to eleven, so it is worth asking again rather than assuming.

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TamzinPoole, UK
#8

Coming back to say I got there, that it took fourteen months from first asking, and that the care since has been good.

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PeronelCanterbury, UK
#9

Something worth knowing: my repeat arrangement needed setting up explicitly and did not happen automatically as I had assumed.

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IvorLlanelli, UK
#10

No wisdom, just: I am sorry. That sounds genuinely hard.

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BramwellNottingham, UK
#11

My practice has a nurse-led clinic that handles all of this and it is far more thorough than any GP appointment I have had.

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BlueStroud, UK
#12

Marking that I am here, in case that counts for anything today.

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#13

Holding a boundary kindly: we do not tell people to move, change practices or go private in this circle. We describe what happened to us.

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BronwenBarry, UK
#14

What I would say is that the local specifics matter enormously and general advice about the system is usually wrong for your particular area.

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