Hi All

It could be either advice or reaffirmation that I need to change consultants.

Luckily I am in remission so not much to complain about but as this is for Lung Cancer and taking account age etc... then it's all about the monitoring process for any recurrence or new cancer developing.

On what I had read on this from the AMA compared to UK sources low dose CT scans are the advised way to go.  As I have full Bupa cancer coverage in the Spring I switched over from NHS to Bupa private which originally seemed the right thing to do.  However, the private consultant will only advise CT scans once per year which is what the NHS would have gone for anyway.  Plus the NHS had me in on a 3-month basis for a lung X-ray.  I also felt there was a lot more proactive communication from the NHS staff.

Although I have recently had the all-clear from the 1 year CT scan I had to nag at my consultant's secretary to get this information.   The current consultant very much feels like the NHS of old in that he is too important a person to be wasting time with a patient.

Do people think I should go back to Bupa and see about moving to a different consultant or whether I should just go back to the NHS service previously used?  I pay about £1K per year for Bupa membership and feel I should take advantage of it but at the moment it is not much of an advantage.

Alasdair