My partner has had issues with his health - migraines and generally being unwell. We’ve had to go into emergency a few times - it once ended up in hospitalisation but it’s been months of symptoms and misdiagnosis and we don’t know what to do.
We live in London so are referred to the hospitals within our borough, but a few friends have mentioned that there are hospitals in the South of the River that may be better as they specialise in all things neurology etc. How do we get a referral from our GP - everytime we ask for one, they tell us that they can’t and that we can only be referred to the unhelpful local hospital or it’s best that we go private. Or do we go private to get closer to a diagnosis and then go back to the NHS?
They are also refusing to investigate with blood tests - they’ve offered MRI and CTs which we’ve done - but feel we need some sort of blood test.
Apologise for not being specific as we don’t know what’s wrong - what department to ask to be referred to and what tests to ask for.