As far as I am aware, paying private for an initial consultation normally beats the nhs queues for initial appt only. Yep that is good.. I just paid £150 and cut 18 week time off and because of that injtial q jumping having investigations now .. Before what my 1st appt would have been..
However unless you are actually prediagnosed and treated for going to find out you are diabetic privately, then to be honest I do not know of any way that you could Win' by going privately. I certainly haven't seen or heard of anybody in uk that has gone private and managed to get a pump by doing so.
The private consultants are still the nhs ones, just having a day paid for by private people..if consultants dont encourage pumps in a nhs hosp. Not necessarily because of funding), then don't they still hold these views on their one day in private med?
I would try to ascertain why consultants against you/daughter having a pump..how many people have your hospital placed on pumps..find oht if any other hospitals have better number ratios for pump users.. You do have a choice of hospital.
I certainly know of one person.. Who when he asked for a pump to his dsn... She actually thrned round to him and said "no, you'll be too dangerous using one'....
He did research, and went to consultant with all the reasons he should have one..... He got it....
However, I helped him in early days of pumping... And hugy 'yes' he was a nightmare, phoning me up at 3am and asking what he should do because he had bomysed for a hypo... Yep dangerous indeed initially!!!
So my line is... I dont know of any person succeeding on the route you suggested. There are orher avenues to explore nhs too... Input - and others help enormiusly to people up against brick walls....
