RogerS wrote:Terry...fear not. Fingers crossed for you and your daughter's speedy recovery.
I agree with you, though. Bottom Line - the NHS is brilliant.
The NHS is fantastic, end of story.
A couple of years ago after the usual tests, I was diagnosed with a 'mild, non-aggressive' form of Prostate Cancer (that's a day that I won't ever forget as time seemed to pass very slowly). Within six weeks of the diagnosis, I had a Radical Prostatectomy using the
Da Vinci robot to remove the Prostate Gland, which turned out to be a complete cure for this disease. During the same op, an umbilical hernia was also fixed, which would have needed general surgery at some point regardless of the cancer.
The op was carried out at a private hospital in Southampton used by the NHS for this procedure.
Quite the most worrying concern was that almost the whole process of setting up dates and times for the op was done over the 'phone...I never received any sort of confirmation letter telling me when and where to go for the op; had I not been within three feet of the 'phone when it rang, the bottom line is that I may have missed the slot.
Throughout the whole of that summer/autumn of 2016, all the NHS staff that I came into contact with were unfailingly superb, even though it was quite evident that they were under an enormous amount of pressure - Rob
I no longer work for Axminster Tools & Machinery.