Does anyone know what it means when a G.P asks a consultant to have an appointment extradited ??

[TheOriginalNutcracker]

DD (13) was referred to a consultant at the begiunning of August because of Scoliosis.

We were orginally told she faced a wait of 14 weeks, which has been and gone and then kept being told that they didn't know how long she'd wait.

I went back to my gp last week and she was not impressed and said she would chase it up. Since then the practice have been told that dd won't get an appointment til February at the earliest.

However the surgery have now left me a message today saying that the gp has written to the consultant asking for dd's appointment to be extradited, but they don't explain what this means.
The message just said that hopefully this would get her seen sooner.

Anyone have any idea what it means ??

Just making dinner so will comment on replies later

Expedited. They have asked for it to be speeded up.

Was it expedited? That means to speed it up, ie; get seen sooner.

It means the GP secretary calls the consultant secretary and changes the priority of the appt from 'routine' to 'urgent' which generally means within a couple of weeks.

Hope that helps :)

'Expedited' I should think - speeded up, brought forward. She should be seen sooner.

Ah ha thank you. I did think that extradited was the wrong word, but thats what she said on the message LOL.

That's brilliant news then

I think whoever left the message meant expedited - that is, sped up/hurried along.

Blimey - many xps - took me a while to type my message obviously. :)

Surgery probably meant to say expedited I would guess - ie simply that they asked the consultant to speed things up as far as possible! Hope it works - these things can take forever so it's good you have a supportive GP who is willing to help apply pressure.

Either we're all right, or the venue of the appointment is to be moved to Guantanamo Bay.

LOL goingspare. Right now I would go whereever it took to get dd seen.