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 :-|