AIBU to think this referral to breast clinic is taking too long?

[billeth]

Lump in my boob. Found 3 weeks ago. Took 12 days to get a GP appt. They referred to on 2ww to breast clinic. This was a week ago, so I'm now at nearly three weeks in this horrible limbo. I hear about people getting same or next day appointments with their GP then very quick turnaround at the breast clinic, but I feel totally forgotten. GP says it is out of their hands now, and when I call the breast clinic through the hospital switchboard it just rings out. Just fed up of being scared whilst I wait and just want to know if I have breast cancer or not.

If you can afford it then I would pay. You can get seen and done much quicker. Personally I can usually get a same or next day appointment.

@billeth I’ve been referred 3 separate times, each time I was seen within 2 weeks of the GP appointment.

Each time they were just cysts which were drained. I’m just prone to them.

Try not to panic.

No. We must stop making this excuse for the NHS. For the same issue, I was given a GP appt within 2 hours of messaging them, I had scans and a biopsy 4 days later and from reporting the lump to getting my (thankfully all clear) results it was 19 days. It can and is done successfully in some places. This is not a 'swamped NHS' issue this is individual GP practices and Trust departments failing. We need to name and shame. We need to shout about individual departments/GPs failing rather than just saying 'the NHS is swamped'. Some parts of the NHS are amazing and very efficient. If some parts of the NHS can do it then they can all do it.