Cateracts: NHS or private

[Yeahreally]

I'm mid-late 40s and have just found out I need a cataracts op in one eye (although the other could be not too soon after).
I've had a private consultation and have been told of thd multi-focal options you get on private (vs the mono-focal option on NHS) and struggling to make my mind up.
To have both eyes done would cost c£6k but struggling to work out if it's worth it.
Would love to hear from anyone who has had either the NHS monofocal option done or the private multifocal option. We're the end results better or worse than expected? Has anyone paid for a private multifocal procedure only to find that they still needed glasses anyway?

Have you started to find close work blurred when wearing your glasses. I'm assuming you're quite short-sighted and it sometimes happens later.

If you have started to find close vision blurred when wearing contacts or glasses, you can try a varifiocal contact lens, the optics are very similar to the intra-ocular lenses. Some people like them and some don't (although if you do have the multi-focal lens and don't like it, you can always opt to have a normal lens in the other eye).

NHS here. Treated within a year for cataracts both eyes. This also solved very shortsight and astigmatism. I was offered one eye long, one eye reading length but went for both long. Now have good vision but need glasses for reading in less than bright light, or tiny print, but not for working on a screen.

Previously as a contact lens wearer I had used one long, one short since the brain adapts.

Surgery was good (same surgeon does private) and after care fine. Not sure what the multifocal options you are being offered are.

I had cataracts done, NHS, a few years ago, in my 40s. Very happy with the result. I still need glasses but I was very short sighted, now I can go about my day without glasses, only needing them if I really need to see something!
My vision was terrible once the cataract formed, so I might have gone private to avoid wait times if that had been an issue.
When mine were done a few years ago, I think I had to wait about 6 months from first diagnosis to op being done. This was acceptable for me - several years would not have been.

My parents both had their cataracts done on the NHS and were very pleased with the result. I didn't know there was different treatment. But they both said they could see normally again. My mum wore glasses anyway, my dad did not.