"Long time for biopsy result"

I had a gastroscopy in Sept 2024 at an NHS GG&C hospital.  They took a biopsy during the investigation and I was informed it would take 12 weeks to get the result. I felt this was far too long for a result to be reported but there was nothing I could do about it.  If no result in the 12 weeks I was asked to call back to the endoscopy dept.

Result did not arrive in the 12 weeks so I called back to endoscopy.  This was followed up by a second call 2 weeks later were I was advised to complain via a complaints e-mail (and also told the wait for results was now 16 weeks). I did this and managed to progress the report which was done around early January 2025. I still did not get the result as the report was sent to endoscopy who had to write me a letter explaining the result. 

I made two further phone calls to progress this and finally got the letter with my test results in mid Feb 2025 (it took 21 weeks; approx 5 months to get a biopsy result). 

Fortunately there was nothing sinister in the results but if there had been no-one would have known for months as the test was simply not looked at.