Have a skin problem and wonder if anyone else has had it.

nadateturbe

Callistemon21

You should have been given an urgent appointment with your GP. The GP could take a close up photo of it and send it to a Consultant Dermatologist who would then decide if you need to be seen by them urgently.

But thank goodness for Benenden!

Thatt sounds like a good idea, but yes, thank goodness for Benenden. I wouldn't hang around. No point in worrying.

I must say I was 10 days from referral by GP to a dermatologist.

However, DD was seen by a GP who was unsure, so I rang Benenden and she was seen the next day.

Callistemon Benenden is great, but 10 days was good for NHS appointment.
A friend recently took her baby son to the GP with very severe skin rash probably eczema. GP referred him to a dermatologist, but said the waiting time was a year.

The GP though it was a cancerous lump, it wasn't thankfully, but it turned out to be something else which was urgent.
That was about 4 years ago, before Covid and the present problems.

I hope the baby gets a more urgent appointment, he must be feeling thoroughly miserable.

Oh that was much more urgent Callistemon. Glad you were OK.
Baby's parents were able to pay privately.

Oh good. But if they hadn't, he'd be suffering.

Indeed. Its all very down atm.

Slow atm, not down! Stupid phone!