But travelling far for surgery would be impossible because he's also suffered from chronic pain since being involved in a car accident in 1999.He lives near Blackpool and says a journey to a hospital just an hour away would be too hard for him.
"That would be a nightmare for me and I wouldn't just be able to go straight there and straight back," explains Mr Wakefield. For other patients, travel will not be a barrier to surgery and could be the only solution to getting timely treatment for a chronic health issue. Under this new scheme, patients waiting for surgery in Derbyshire and Staffordshire have already received treatment in Northumberland.NHS waiting lists reached a record high in England in AprilWhile many hospitals focussed on treating COVID patients during the pandemic, other procedures were delayed, including critical cancer treatments.
Dr Anil Mehta, a GP and the clinical chair in Redbridge, northeast London, said:"I think we shouldn't be too concerned about patients being offered care out-of-area as long as there are provisions, for instance, for people who go for knee and hip operations to have follow-up care locally if needed."
'Eliminate two-year waiters' doesn't sound too good
“Virtually” eliminate….. 🤔🤔🤔 More Tory fudging of the figures then.
I was asked if was prepared to have surgery on my knee in another part of the country. My answer was yes and I ended up having the op at my local hospital in the end.
Me & my big family & extensive friends throughout the UK have vowed to vote the tories again because labour does Not support or help the minimum wage workers, especially in this current high cost of living crisis, they always make the poor working people suffer
so the stories about socialized healthcare are true?
This is another example of how the NHS is a complete mess that should be abolished and replaced with a private healthcare industry in the UK.
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