My Mum was referred to Crosshouse Hospital for a full hip replacement. COVID struck and her operation was cancelled (as she expected). Months passed and she was finally delighted to get a new date for her operation. She attended her pre-op clinic in preparation for her operation.
During the appointment she was devastated to be told that her operation had been cancelled due to the hospital no longer accepting elective operations.
She has since been advised that she has to go back to her GP to be re-referred to a consultant at Ayr Hospital and start the whole process again, which could take another year.
My Mum is in a huge degree of pain. She is unable to go out and her quality of life is being impacted profoundly. It seems grossly unfair that she cannot be simply transferred to to the Ayr list and is being treated according to her postcode.
"Hip replacement surgery"
About: Crosshouse Hospital / Trauma & orthopaedics Crosshouse Hospital Trauma & orthopaedics KA2 0BE
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