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BHR in the UK.

Some NHS trusts do it. Some don't It seems to depend on the

individual surgeon.

You can't choose your surgeon, so you may get someone doing their

first BHS (ok - thy have to train, but not on my partner).

Waiting list for a THR - 18 months.

Then you only get a day or 2 notice (probably a week if you're

lucky) - and if you don't want the op on that date - another 18

months wait!.

So - private insurance - or pay for it.

At least if you pay for it, you get to choose the date and the

surgeon.

We were quoted £9750.

We have private insurance - BUT - no pre-existing conditions - of

course, arthritis is almost by definition pre-existing!.

McMinn has an approx 3 month waiting list. We didn't ask about

mr Treacy? or other surgsons as I personally know 2 successfull

mcMinn ops (3 years and 4 years).

So - at lot of money - but Steve is booked in for mid-December!.

Of course, we'll stay on the NHS waiting list - 'cos if anything goes

horribly wrong, he wouldn't want to wait another 18 months!.

Crafty though - you have to keep restating that you want to stay on

the NHS waiting list every 2 or 3 months - in writing - otherwise you

just get removed!.

And the waiting list is 'currently' 18 months - who knows what it'll

end up as - as I say, you don't get any indication of a date until a

few days before.

Good old NHS!. Even if you have private Health Insurance, you STILL

have to pay for the NHS.

If only they would fund part of our private OP as we are saving them

money by getting it done elsewhere.

By the way, the Royal Berkshire hospital apparantly has ONE hip-chap,

and he operated on ONE day a week (excluding holidays etc). So no

wonder there's a long waiting list.

It may be possible to get transferred to another area - but that

would mean joining the bottom of THEIR waiting list - another 18

months (he's been on the list for 12 months already). And no

gaurantee of someone who's ever done the op before. etc. etc.

And you must have heard rumours of the bugs in the NHS hospitals. And

the food!. And the Cleaning. And the.......