Just one more thing on that front while I'm thinking about it. When I say 'we paid' I mean it - we don't have private insurance. One of the policies the Tories are proposing is that 60% of the cost of an NHS operation could be used to part-fund the private treatment. There are apparently only about 3% of private treatments that are paid directly that would benefit from this policy, and ours was one. It would have saved me several thousands of pounds - and I UTTERLY REJECT IT.