A man who waited four years for a hip operation was sent home after being prepped for surgery because his paperwork hadn’t arrived. Darryl Pashley is in daily pain which traps him in his third-floor flat due to an old hip implant digging into his bone. On the NHS waiting list since 2020, he finally got the good news about the surgery which would change his life this year, set for 1 May.

Despite running into difficulty finding transport to drive the 70 miles to NHS’ Prince Phillip Hospital in Llanelli, he was then turned away at 8am the next day after he had been dressed in his surgery gown and fasted for the anaesthetic. Training success for Aberystwyth Sea Cadets Strong turnout for sewage protest on Aberystwyth’s north beach Aberystwyth wooden jetty to get facelift after town council secures funding Sun shines down for Goginan's Proms in the Field The 70-year-old retired engineer and gardener from Borth said: “The staff didn’t say anything, I don’t even think they apologised. “I just lay there fuming- I’d been prepared, showered and in my gown, watching four others getting prepped for their operations.

“It was embarrassing- its incompetence. “There’s something wrong with the system. “I live up three flights of stairs- it’s a boring life stuck here days on end until I go out shopping- I have to lean on trolleys and use two walking sticks.

” The hospital was waiting for his pre-operation assessment paperwork which was done in January to arrive from t.