In Ni How Long Would Someone Have To Wait For A Hip Replacement Operation After They'd..

[sandyRoe]

...had an assessment of suitability?

[jennyjoan]

Sandy - hip replacement after assessment would be 2-3 years. That is why so many of friends went private (borrowed) the money.

My cousin just got one there - she waited a long time too but suffered extremely waiting.

[sandyRoe]

Thank you, JJ. That seems a fair long wait

[jennyjoan]

it is too long in my estimation. If it is for yourself or a beloved one - why don't you ring Musgrave Hospital - that is where they are done.

[sandyRoe]

It's not for me. We'll be going on Friday for the assessment so they'll probably tell us then.

[Buenchico]

The target figure for NI is 36 weeks:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-19138872

[jennyjoan]

chris - that article was published in 2012 - "they" say 36 weeks only in black and white. Reality is far from the truth. Anyway good luck Sandy - hope it is quicker for you. NHS - what about the people who waited in A&E on trolleys 29hours-34hours. Wouldn't bank on it

[slaney]

In NI the waiting times for routine hip operations in individual hospitals are not available as they are in the rest of the UK.

From this NI Assembly document ....

"The average number of weeks waiting for hip replacement surgery in the T & O Surgery specialty, at 31st December 2012, the most recent quarter for which official statistics are available is 16.5 weeks"

http://aims.niassembly.gov.uk/questions/printquestionsummary.aspx?docid=161305

[jennyjoan]

3 years for 3 friends of mine.

[Buenchico]

Slaney:
I'd found a more up-to-date version of those statistics here:
http://www.dhsspsni.gov.uk/inpatient_waiting_list_publication_qe_december_2013.pdf
The reason that I didn't refer to them above is that they only show that (for example) 8.2% of Trauma & Orthopaedics patients waited more than 30 weeks but, unhelpfully, they don't show which T&O patients faced such long waits (was it all those waiting for hip replacements, perhaps?) and they also don't show how much longer than 30 weeks they actually waited. (It could have been just 31 weeks or it could have been several years; there's no way of knowing).

[Old_Geezer]

It must be difficult to find the budget to do everything needed rapidly. But it occurs to me that most joint replacements are likely to be for the elderly with a smaller number of years left than many others: so a 3 year wait for them could be, say, a third of their remaining life, whist for a young doctor/administrator it may seem more like around a tenth they're allocating as wait time. Perception is a variable thing.

[Sqad]

Do you really believe NHS waiting time statistics?

16weeks....4 months? Not on your life.

[slaney]

Thanks Chris - they were the figures I was looking for. The majority of patients seem to wait less than 30 weeks - hip replacement and knee replacements would be among the commonest procedures on the waiting list , so I imagine not all the 8% long waiters would have been hip replacements.

Anyway, Sandy will be able to let us know tomorrow....

[sandyRoe]

I'll report back on Friday. I offered to pay for her to go private some time ago but she refused. I've a feeling that she may eventually duck out of this whenever it is.

[dekkypoo]

Mine was 4 months from initial assessment to completion, N.H.S AIREDALE hospital.