For some reason it’s not letting me reply to Rojan or anyone….
Hi, I’ve not posted for a few months as everything was going ok. My husband had his kidney out 5 years ago in October and was doing fine until last CT scan last July. On that scan it was found he had Lymphoma so a PET scan was done, On that PET scan it was found he had stomach cancer, he had his stomach out in Jan and doing ok, he starts radiotherapy for the Lymphoma next month.All that part is going well. Urology for his kidney cancer isn’t though, He had an appointment to see the surgeon 15 May that was cancelled, 6 June cancelled 13 June cancelled 27 June cancelled 5 September cancelled and now we have 12 September, how can they cancel so far in advance as I’m sure the 12th will also go the same way.
I emailed his CNS she said the system doesn’t tell her why the appointments was cancelled so I phoned up the sec, left a message and not heard back. I’m now thinking of getting in touch with PALS as I can’t think of doing anything else, what do you all think. Thanks for reading any how x
How aweful for you.I think current strike action has had some impact on planned appointments but this number of cancellations does seem excessive. Contacting PALS would quite reasonable . I don’t think they have direct access to medical records but there is an expectation that a response is made to their enquiries.
Have you thought about contacting your GP to chase on your behalf ?
Good luck and I hope you get an answer very soon.
Thanks Rojan, there’s no chance of getting GP involved as you phone up 8am by the time you get through all phone calls appointments have gone.
I’ve phoned up the secretary again, left another another message, if I don’t hear back I’ll email PALS tomorrow.
A letter or phone call would do but to just keep getting cancelled isn’t good. Thanks for replying x
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