I just came across something interesting I thought would be worth sharing here. The NHS has a waiting list tracker tool called “My Planned Care”: this means you can see how long you are likely to be waiting for your first outpatient appointment, and for your treatment/surgery, if you have been referred to an NHS hospital. The waiting list figures are grouped by department, so it’s not an exact guide, and for urgent problems you are likely to be seen more quickly than these figures, while for less urgent issues you may be waiting longer.
Here is the page for the Trust which includes Southport & Ormskirk, and here is the page for the Trust which includes Aintree Hospital.
At Formby GP, we can refer into most local NHS outpatient clinics if appropriate. The entitlement to NHS care sits with the patient, not with the person referring, so hospitals can and do accept referrals from private GPs. We have something called an ODS code, which allows the local NHS health bosses to track our referral activity to make sure we’re not doing anything too eccentric!
I hope you’re having a good weekend. We have had a very hectic time recently, so we’ve spent today doing very little. Eddie wanted to play football in the back garden, using the bins as goals; he beat me 10-4!
