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Originally Posted by Dave Poole
Dave Hill wrote:
Here in Wales we have much longer waiting lists than you do in England,
it's the way our health service works (Slow), but even so it's much
better than in the old days when the consultants would wait for the
Cataract to "Ripen".
I went to see my doctor in late August, was referred and got an appointment with the opthalmic clinic a week later and had the first op 10 days after that. I was a bit annoyed that I had to wait so long to have the second eye done. Seems as though I was being somewhat impatient :-|
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I think you were lucky! There's been a lot in the press about cataract operations being regarded as elective surgery and therefore being postponed or stopped altogether; also reports that you can only get one once the second eye is affected and then only on one eye. I only know one person with cataracts, and she's been waiting over a year. It's prevented her from driving after dark, which has made her life difficult - even in a city, reliance on public transport limits mobility.
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