A common theme in NHS or private care is the number of occasions patients have to visit the hospital in order to be seen, assessed, tested, obtain the results of the test, have surgery, and then follow up and physiotherapy.

Each part typically needs one visit each. The conditions that can be treated in the one-day hand surgery service can typically be treated on the NHS.

However, due to COVID, non-cancer conditions are being treated as lower priority resulting in waiting times.