Hey Nads - So pleased you found your way here
I used to be under Prof Dusheiko at the RF, lovely man & great Doc. The day before my next appointment, he emailed me personally to apologise that I wouldn't be seeing him any more, I was upset as I felt supported by him and had asked my GP to refer me to the RF because of the Prof being there.
Like you, I was reallocated to a Dr T , is that the one you saw? What a waste of my time, travel costs & hope. He blithely lectured me on how I shouldn't expect to get treated before those with cirrhosis (This after stating a few mins previously that they had now treated all those with cirrhosis), I was suffering with some symptoms, possibly similar to yours and he refused all diagnostics, refused to even do any basic checks etc and said a pulsating feeling under centre ribcage was nothing to do with my liver and to see my GP. Later I had a new LiverMultiScan which showed my worst fibrosis in this area. He told me I could wait for treatment. I told him this was no good and I would consider taking the new generic medicines. He said I would have to pay privately for all consultations and all blood tests (thousands of £) IF any Dr would do this and he very much doubted and anyway they were all too busy.
Having waited for that appointment in hope of addressing my rather severe symptoms, I left angry and depressed, my 'consultation' was just a lecture on how selfish I was, how I wouldn't be treated any time soon and how I was 'fine' and didn't need any diagnostics, this had a negative effect on my mental and therefore physical health.
Prof D suggested I 'push' for treatment and request an Ultrasound scan which I did, Dr T reluctantly agreed to the latter. My next appointment came around, but as he had said I couldn't hope for any treatment until very earliest June 2016 and he couldn't guarantee that, I cancelled through the Royal Free telephone appointment thing. Dr T then wrote to my GP telling him I hadn't shown up. So that's on my records . This can prevent future treatment, if you are listed as a no show. The Royal Free have apologised and suggested I take it up with PALS, but at the time I was trying to avoid stressful negative influences, so didn't but may well do that now out of principle.
Anyway, pleased to say I treated with generic medicines via MonkMed / Redemption and am currently waiting for post treatment tests.
Do you now have monitoring? I can highly recommend MonkMeds Dr Debasis, he has been a tower of strength to me and extremely helpful throughout my treatment, but he can't order expensive Viral Load tests on NHS more's the pity.
If you need any advise re monitoring, GP support etc please do not hesitate to PM me.
Meanwhile, I wish you the very best for your treatment and regaining good health

I'm sure you will start to feel better very soon

LG