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Something else on the 20 month wait for appointments. GIDS quotes to new kids/families the time people currently being seen have waited. Which is 20 months. BUT, the wait time over the past 2 years has grown by half a month every month.
For the past 2+ years, the actual wait has never matched the quoted 'current wait time'. Meaning kids & families are continually disappointed when they reach their expected wait time, with no appointment in sight.
Why won't GIDS acknowledge the wait time has for 2+ years grown by half a month every month. They say the current wait time is 20 months. Kids & families referred now (Feb 19) expect to be seen in Dec 20.
But over those 20 months of waiting, the wait will, based on the past 2 years, have grown a further 10 months. They won't be seen for 30 months. But in those extra 10 months it will have grown 5 more. They may not be seen for 37 months.
Kids referred in Feb 19 would be seen in March 22. Now I hope that never happens. But I hoped throughout the past 2 years the waiting list wouldn't continue to grow. And grow it has. All the time with the service in denial and assuming somehow the wait won't continue to grow.
Now of course we do not know whether the wait will continue to grow. But the growing wait has been a steady pattern for 2+ years. A competent service would be open about it, would predict it, would inform kids & families a realistic wait time.
