Waiting for Funding Approval

After contacting the hospital back on 16/11/2011, I still hadn't received any confirmation
as to the next stage or in deed if the Local Authority, Primary Care Trust (PCT) had approved my funding for surgery. So as suggested by the hospital, if I hadn't heard anything within a week, then I was to again contact them.

I really didn't expect the hospital to phone me, however if any confirmation was to be sent by letter then going by the past this may take a number of weeks before I got any correspondence, assuming that nothing had been lost in the system.

Not really impatient, but just really needed to know what was happing as at this stage not a day goes by without me thinking about the surgery and my journey.

When I phoned the hospital again they advised me that this could take some weeks, which was totally different to the previous week, when they said they should have an answer within a week. Not happy with this and without sounding negative or obstructive I asked if I could have the details for the contact at the PCT. I was given a name and asked to quote my Hospital 8 digit reference number.

The hospital did help in providing the above and after searching the internet I was quite easily able to locate a central number for the Local Authority PCT.

Decided to contact PCT direct, not only check that they had received the letter, but in fact made a decision about the funding for my surgery.