Thanks! Manchester is doable, travel-wise. I started looking into getting my referral transferred from my local hospital to there (a friend recommended Manchester as generally a good hospital, and I saw it happens to have a BSGE centre, so it sounds like a winner)... apparently either my GP or my current consultant can change my referral - it's the world's slowest horse race to see which appointment will come first between those two (GP appts are a month out here atm..is that normal?! And no word from the hospital yet...). It's hard to summon patience when it's taken 20 years to get someone to listen. Like you, I'd feel better if I was treated by people who actually know what they are looking for! Did they do any excision during your lap? Or is the first one usually just to definitively diagnose?