When A Teenager Was Referred For Urology Treatments, He Was Told He Would Have To Wait For Two-And-A-Half Years To Get An Appointment At A Hospital

A teenager who was referred for hospital checks has been given an appointment by a scandal-hit NHS trust, in June 2025.

The boy’s father said he was stunned after Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) confirmed that the date in the letter was not a typing mistake.

His 16-year-old son was referred to the hospital trust for assessment of a urology-related problem but will be 18 when the day of his appointment comes about in 951 days.

SaTH, where the NHS’s worst maternity scandal took place in which 201 babies and nine mothers died over two decades, has apologised and said it acknowledges that the present wait was not acceptable.

It explained that recruitment problems and pressure due to the continued effect of COVID had led to delays.

The boy’s father said of the appointment letter that he believed it was a typo and was going to ask if they meant 2023 and thought that it might a nine-month wait, and the person in the booking office said that they’d fielded a lot of calls, especially for urology.

He told the local newspaper that the family couldn’t afford to go private and were left alarmed at the wait for his son to be seen over an issue which causes him significant pain.

He said that his life wasn’t in danger but that it was a sensitive problem and he’s 16 years old, and that they were expecting that it would be a few months, but to be informed it was 951 days, over two and a half years, was absurd.

Shrewsbury Liberal Democrat councillor Alex Wagner said the situation was a damning example of the quality of the NHS service in Shropshire. Sheila Fryer, interim deputy chief operating officer at SaTH, said that they would like to apologise for the delay with a urology appointment and that this length of delay was rare and that they wanted to reassure the family that they were doing everything they could, alongside partners, to reduce the amount of time patients were waiting for an appointment, and she added they were also working with other healthcare providers to see if they could support the reduction of waiting times.

Maybe the family should tell the NHS this boy needs gender surgery – they would slot him in to see someone the next day – our NHS is all-to-cock because possibly by the time this poor boy is seen, his situation would have deteriorated and it will cost the NHS even more money to fix the problem and don’t worry about the pain this poor lad has to suffer in the meantime.

Maybe he should have arrived by boat because that appears to be the quickest way to get medical treatment these days, while Rishi Sunak travels the world funding a war, and not our war might I add, giving more of our hard-earned taxes away, but of course, he doesn’t have to line up in a queue for the NHS to fit him in, he can jump the queue with his fat private healthcare because he’s an out of touch privileged doofus.

Wake up everyone, we are paying more tax, but we’re getting much less than we’re paying for, and the Government are rubbing their hands together and laughing at us because people are more than willing to put up with this balderdash.

I think that a lot of doctors on the NHS aren’t treating patients so they’re then forced to go private because that’s the way things are going now… private all the way!