Going private

[nikkie]

I am very against private health care but have found my dd1 waiting for an appointment and when I queried the wait they said 8-9 months.
We want the problem sorting asap without it affecting another school year (she has been missing a lot of school and has points when a day at school exhausts her)
Really I can't afford to but my parents will contribute as will my xh.
Anyone else done this?

Look, yes it's wrong to have a two tiered system and yes you shouldn't have to but if you can and it will lessen your dd's suffering go private. However they don't accept pre-existing conditions.

It's private insurance that won't accept pre-existing conditions, not private consultants; if nikkie means that she is going to pay for the treatment rather than for private health insurance then it won't be a problem - you don't have to have private health insurance to be treated as a private patient.

One option would be to have a private appointment with the consultant, then ask to be put on his NHS waiting list. This will bring you forward on the NHS list. I went private to have my knee surgery done a few years back and was going to do this, but the waiting list was too long even then so I paid to have it done privately and had no qualms about doing so. I had always been against private health care, but I am also against having to wait so long to see someone on the NHS.

Won't be able to be BUPA etc I know I have to fork out for it

apparantly they do one clinic a month seeing 6 patients a time.