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Doctors appointment
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Does paying my national insurance not pay for seeing the doctor?
I never said he was, my point was that under the National Health I am entitled to free access to a doctor should I be unfortunate enough to be ill.
Should you have a long standing illness that entails you seeing a doctor on a regular basis I'm sure you'd be very happy paying £5 a time.
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£5 might just cover the parking
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I see an NHS dentist but they still charge. Ok, so it's cheaper than a private dentist but I'm rarely in there more than 5 minutes. All for the bargain price of £17
The prob with it taking a couple of weeks to see a doctor is most people have got over what they had before the appointment time , but dont cancel the appointment .
If a proper way of confirming appointments was set up or even people just taking the time to cancel them it would benefit everyone by taking waiting time down
If a proper way of confirming appointments was set up or even people just taking the time to cancel them it would benefit everyone by taking waiting time down
It's usually a woman who answeres the phone, just tell her you need to see a male doctor and you don't want to talk about it and you'll get an appointment straight away. The doctor isn't told by reception what you are there for.
My wife works in a doctors surgery. It's clogged up by people with sniffles, coughs and minor aches and pains that most of us just put up with or take an aspirin for. The majority of doctors time is taken with about 15% of patients that are in every other week. Large numbers of people who get free prescriptions also regularly visit the doctor to get a prescription for aspirin and basic stuff that we all buy at Tesco for 75p. Charging £5 wouldn't work because it targets the wrong people. The people abusing the system would still get it free.
The answer is to get tough with them and filter out the time wasters. Tell them to take a Lemsip. The problem though is that eventually one of them will actually be ill and die.
The answer is to get tough with them and filter out the time wasters. Tell them to take a Lemsip. The problem though is that eventually one of them will actually be ill and die.
I've given the NHS a bashing in recent years (not on here though) after failed surgeries and waiting times but, now that I'm in the States, I can honestly say that I may have been a bit harsh.
Here, even though you pay health insurance, you still need to wait to see a 'family doctor' and even then usually have to pay a 'co-pay' (insurance excess) when you see them. They will then refer you to a specialist if necessary and you may again have to wait weeks before seeing those and also have another co-pay to part with. You can see doctors in 'urgent care' clinics immediately if required but...you guessed it...another co-pay. Any prescriptions you have to get filled also require a co-pay.
I'm not running down the system here as it works totally differently without NI, waiting times are generally a lot lower, and there is also the same situation where those that can't afford insurance get free treatment, but I certainly won't be NHS bashing anymore.
Here, even though you pay health insurance, you still need to wait to see a 'family doctor' and even then usually have to pay a 'co-pay' (insurance excess) when you see them. They will then refer you to a specialist if necessary and you may again have to wait weeks before seeing those and also have another co-pay to part with. You can see doctors in 'urgent care' clinics immediately if required but...you guessed it...another co-pay. Any prescriptions you have to get filled also require a co-pay.
I'm not running down the system here as it works totally differently without NI, waiting times are generally a lot lower, and there is also the same situation where those that can't afford insurance get free treatment, but I certainly won't be NHS bashing anymore.
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And once again...........If there weren't so many people poncing off the NHS in the form of health tourism and people that have never paid into it, we wouldn't have the problem. Unfortunately, the blinkered cannot compute this in their tiny brains.
Kippers keep trotting this out. As always they don't bother whether any of their 'facts' are actually true.
The figure is quoted as £2 billion. 3/4 of that is from people who are working here. Read this http://www.theguardian.com/politics/reality-check/2013/oct/22/health-tourists-costing-nhs-2bn
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