Quote Originally Posted by NewPaul View Post
Definitely need a hip replacement Tone. The current wait on NHS is minimum 10 months. Given what happened during Covid (who knows what might come along next), Junior Doctors strikes, general national ‘unrest’, economic downturn etc. etc… that ten months could easily become longer in my mind.
I don’t want to face another four seasons with this pain and more importantly… decreased quality of everyday life, so….. I’ve decided to go private. I’ve got a meeting with the Doc (same specialist I saw on NHS last Thursday) next Monday 5th June at Cheltenham with an estimated
August date for the operation. That’s only nine or ten weeks away
I was told the wait for my knee would be late January/early February. March at very latest. Ended up as Mid August