can I speed the NHS up ? 3 months and no prescription yet

[stewgreen]

- The Crohn's disease website says people are usually back to normal within a week of starting to take the drug (cortizone ?), but it will be 3 months from beginning to get my first prescription. Surely the system shouldn't be so slow. The longer people wait the more we deteriate surely ?

- My problem with blood coming from my stomach started 10th September I went to the
doctor 1 week later then again
.. then waited 2 weeks for an examination
... then another 3 weeks for a endoscopy .. on the printout it says suspected Crohns Disease and they said they will get me an urgent appointment with the specialist ...

- I just got the letter my appointment is the 1st of December. that's a month from now !
... the pain is not great, but my life and work are on hold so I have to get an earlier appointment.
.. I rang up to tell them I can take any cancellation .... She told me that they are a doctor short hence the delay.

...I should tell them I can go to any other part of the country

- No diet advice - Since first seeing the doctors I got worse. I don't think the first advice was good I was told to eat fibre like I normally do, but then there was more blood and mucus ... I think the fibre was scarring rather than soothing my stomach. I had starting taking 2 2mg Immodium/day to stabilise my stomach, but now that I have cut out harder food like fruit skins, coffee, tea and normal meat and switched to white rice, white bread, fruit juice and tinned fish and my stomach is moving much slower.

any tips ?