5aday. Good luck with it. I've generally been happy with the NHS, apart from the mental health side, but that's another story. Part of my reason for going private was the delay. I actually had the op more or less on the same day that the NHS offered for my first appointment with a surgeon. I was concerned with the muscles atrophying from lack of use. It was three and a half months from the injury to the operation, and four months before the stitches were out and I could start rehabilitation. On the NHS that would probably have been at least a month more, possibly two.