In August 2009, I was referred to Leeds Psychological therapy services for Cognative Behaviour Therapy.
the wait time then was 15 weeks.
Every time I met with my psycologist, I would ask if there had been any movement on the referal and after the suicide attempt in February of this year, he was again chasing it up.
Today I got a letter telling me I have JUST been refered and as of the 6th October am on an 18 week waiting list.
This takes me to mid February 2011, a year after I tried to kill myself.
To add insult to injury, they say they never had a referal from him before this one, problem is, its all over my clinical notes that a referal was made and now he has left for pastures new.
The halfwits at the new place even have my GP as being somewhere near Wetherby!!!
So some Dr in Collingham has been getting letters about a patient he has no knowledge of.
I wasnt going to make a complaint about this, but it seems if you want ANY sort of service from the NHS in Leeds, you have to kick off formally to get anywhere.
Its all well & good writing to tell me there is a "lengthy wait" for treatment, but when I should have been referred in August 2009, I would have been in treatment 8 months ago, and I might not have made the attempt on my life.
I will never know, but the fact is, someone's screw up could have cost a life.
How many people have been missed by the referral section & gone on to actually take their own life? Not everyone is as shit as I am at topping yourself!!!
Sat now waiting for someone from the department to call me back to "discuss" this whole mess.
Not holding my breath. If their call back is like the referral service, it'll be some point in the new year.

Amazed!!!!
ReplyDeleteIt only took two hours for them to find me an appointment in November this year.
Roll on seeing someone on November 11th.
At last, some good news on the health front...