Hi Telemando, I agree.  I've had a three week wait so far for CT scan results and my consultant will only chase for them when he returns from annual leave on Monday.  Possibly another week or two wait by the time the results are in and my appointment is scheduled with the consultant.  All the while this mass could be growing and, if something sinister, spreading.  So scary.

I completely agree. I'm in a similar situation. I don't know on what planet a 6 week wait for results is considered acceptable. 

I completely agree. I'm in a similar situation. I don't know on what planet a 6 week wait for results is considered acceptable. 

Hi telemando I would have thought there would be a lot more people on here by now I can't understand why not, 

Billy 

I waited a month between each test and biopsy. I don’t know if the appointments were set up that way to deal with the slowness of the labs or where I went were just slow anyway. Probably a combination of the two. 

Morning ...

There was a thread on here l read over the weekend .. a lady who had first test and given an urgent refural for more tests .. forget two weeks... forget one month ... or two months .. she got one for three months ... hang their heads in shame ... 

How to go about getting change ... l dont know ... but if anyone knows a way of getting telemando thread to someone who just may be able to do something ....

But it needs everyone who has this problem to stand up and put their story across too ... good people can make a change .. l know the two weeks may have a day or two delay ... but weeks / months must change ... Chrissie  x

Hi Chrissy. 

I think the first step is to establish the scale of the problem. I hope this can be done by a series of targeted Freedom Of Information requests sent to the appropriate NHS foundation trusts, etc, asking for summary statistics of how long it takes to turnaround different types of result and what are their service standards. This will require planning: first to identify the particular trusts, etc, to target with requests, and second to formulate the most appropriate wording for the request(s). 

At the same time, it will do no harm to gather more informal stats and horror stories on this thread, and maybe also find some volunteers who'd like to join in and help.

I am a complete novice at this, so I'm very much in the dark on the right way to do this sort of thing.