First referred spring 2008, operated on in autumn of 2009.

EDIT: Actually, it wasn't for want of trying - he had two operation dates cancelled due to over booking so maybe you could say he satisfied their targets by being called for surgery within 6 months but had to send him home again (after getting him prepared, in his jimmies and waiting for the trolley) because there were too many patients and not enough theatre slots. That had to happen again before they finally got him under the knife.