> I've read and heard that for a non-emergency appointments, the wait could sometimes be months. Is that also overstated? Depends on where you are. I lived in

> I've read and heard that for a non-emergency appointments, the wait could sometimes be months. Is that also overstated? Depends on where you are. I lived in the UK until last August and am now in the US. When I lived in London and Oxford I found the wait times to be very quick - in Oxford I could get non-emergency appointments the same day, possibly due to the high number of GPs and University hospitals. In London it was same week for everything I ever had an issue with. I believe in the less well-off areas, especially in the North of the country, there are areas with far lower staff numbers so the waiting time inflates. Worst-case scenarios in worst-case areas do have multiple-month waiting times nowadays.