You are correct in thinking that our NHS is not up to scratch and I do pity you if you end up like us. I have been told that I have to wait 26 weeks before my name even goes onto the waiting list to see anyone in Pain management. There are no Drs, one dr brought out of retirement is leaving this week. the other dr is flown in from the other side of the world, works two weeks on and two weeks, the NHS pay for all of her expences. My friend is the pain management sister, she just picks up the phone and fields the calls from the desperate patients. When they threaten suicide she refers them to their own GP. I have been to ER, sat for 7 hrs in a filthy waiting room, nurses being rude to patients. All they did was to take blood, told me to go home and agreed with my own Computer diagnosis of Acute Cutaneous Nerve Entrapment Syndrome. I was not even examined. You are on your own here. I am still waiting for last weeks CT scan results. I waited 8months for one of my CT scan results. There is little care to be had here, seriously. I have the symptoms of Acnes. God help us.