My husband is in good hands in a local hospice thanks to the intervention of a liasing hospice charity nurse. He has developed ascetites and a scan in A and E just before New Year revealed spread of disease to the periteneum which is new. His oncologist is under his works private health care scheme . Since 28th December , GP arranged A and E visits resulted in NHS doctors being reluctant to drain ascetites without oncologists approval. Despite several requests and passing on of information from my husband and the hospice pharmacist to the oncologists secretary there has been no response from him . The oncologist previously ignored a referral back from our GP and only saw him at an appointment brought forward by his own team who were concerned at my husbands condition when he went for a routine portacath flush. He is on the first cycle of third line treatment by chemotherapy tablets ,some of which he lost through vomiting. The NHS has no access to his Private Hosoital Information , luckily we have always asked for copies of scan reports and the latest ones were NHS emergency ones which the hospice do have access to. I dont know whether to request to be moved to an NHS oncologist or what else l can do.
