Under 18 ‘urgent’ hospital referral - how long?

[Verbena17]

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Verbena17 · Today 09:28
Hi
GP referral letter - classed as Urgent was sent to hospital on 2nd dec.
I just called hospital again today to ask if he’d been triaged and she said no, not yet!
I said I thought if it was ‘urgent’ they had to be seen within two weeks and she said no, that’s cancer patients only.

Anybody know how long the NHS waiting time policy is for other urgent referrals?

It’s for chest pain/heart pain with right branch bundle block & prolonged QTc.

I have an urgent appointment for neuro ophthalmology - it’s for March 2023, so 4 months. Non urgent waiting list is a year.

I just don’t understand how ‘urgent’ really isn’t being classed as urgent.

Where I am urgent means 4 months , non urgent is 6-8 months or a year depending on the speciality .