WAITING GAME

Boy, 16, referred for hospital checks given NHS appointment in June 2025

Richard Moriarty

Published: 22:10, 19 Nov 2022
Updated: 22:10, 19 Nov 2022

A BOY of 16 referred for hospital checks has been given an NHS appointment in June 2025.

The teenager must wait 951 days before he can be assessed for a urology-related problem.

The teenager must wait 951 days before he can be assessed at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust

His dad was staggered when the confirmation arrived from Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust.

He said: “We expected a nine-month wait, but to be told it is more than two-and-a-half years — I was just incredulous.

“If nothing changes my son will have this problem until he is 18.”

The Trust blamed Covid and recruitment woes.

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A spokesman said: “We apologise. The length of the wait is rare.”

He said the Trust is working with other hospitals to cut wait times.

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