I paid £1400 to have the first one done, and had the other on the NHS by the same people in the same place. I paid for the first to be done because I was quoted something like a 3 month wait for a consultancy and then joint a 10 month waiting list. My eyes were not going to improve and I was in danger of being unable to drive, even with spectacles. I phoned back to go private and the first was done and dusted within 2 weeks. Disgraceful state of affairs. Had I been one of the new and exciting incomers I would no doubt have got to the fromt of the queue without payment. I told the consultant that I was stumbling on kerbs and stairs and that it was now dangerous to have one good and one poor eye. He furiously had to book me in for the second op pronto and that was done within the month.