Your right to be treated within 18 Weeks will cease to apply in circumstances where:

• You choose to wait longer – You might be taking a holiday within the 18 week period (this is known as patient choice)
• Delaying the start of your treatment is in your best clinical interests – For example, where smoking cessation or weight management is likely to improve the outcome of your treatment
• It is clinically appropriate for your condition to be actively monitored without clinical intervention or diagnostic procedures – For example, you may have a condition whereby you and your Clinician decide to see if it gets worse or better before deciding that surgery is the best course of treatment.
• You fail to attend appointments – Which you had chosen from a set of reasonable options
• The treatment is no longer necessary
• You are added to a transplant waiting list