A 16-year-old boy referred for hospital checks has been given an appointment in June 2025 – a wait of 951 days.
The boy's father said he was astonished after Shrewsbury & Telford Hospital NHS Trust confirmed that the date given in the letter was not a typo.
He said the family does not have enough money to seek private help and have been left dismayed at the situation."We were expecting a nine-month wait would be on par for where we thought the NHS was with waiting lists but to speak to the person in the booking office, I think she already anticipated my question before I asked it and said 'yes, we have fielded a lot of these calls, particularly for urology'.
He said:"This is possibly the worst case of the NHS backlog failing a patient that I have seen in a long time. To ask someone in need of care to wait for three years is simply unacceptable, and is a damning example of the quality of the service in Shropshire. Sheila Fryer, interim deputy chief operating officer at (SaTH, said: “We would like to apologise for the wait for a urology appointment. This length of delay is rare and we would like to reassure you that we are doing everything we can, alongside partners, to reduce the amount of time patients are waiting for an appointment.
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