Anyonehad an operation/hospital admittance in the Uk recently?

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Discussing this but no one has been to hospital recently... or knwo anyone who has.

If i go into Hospital for say My tonsils out on the NHS, will they send a bill to me for a nominal fee like a prescription charge???

Im sure when I had mine out at age 14 my dad got a "bill" for £4 or something silly to cover "something"

Vague... Anyone clear it up for me ?

Thanks.
 
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You don't get charged - I was in for a few days after being mauled by a wild tiger* and nothing.

If you have to take any meds after you are released however, then you will most likely have to pay the prescription charges.



*It may have been a feral cat rather than a tiger, but that's irrelevant.
 
Brilliant really isn't it? No many other places in the world could answer that question with "No charge."

Yet people still **** off the NHS and we're unfortunately heading towards privatisation :confused:
 
But we pay for them anyway? If our taxes didn't go towards them and the taxes stayed in our pockets we could afford our own healthcare if we didn't spend the tax money...
 
There is no charge but it would be nice if there was some co-pay and clients made aware of the true costs. This is one of the issues with the NHs, people are oblivious to the costs so don't appreciate it and tend to abuse the service. If people had to pay say 25% of the costs up to a maximum of say £2000 per year then they might respect the service more (people at low incomes could have lower max deductible, e.g. That disappear to nearly nothing at min wage and nothing below that).

Before people say that this is crazy. The NHS isn't free like so many people are mistaken in believing because they aren't billed. The NHS is very expensive, getting treatment costs a lot of money. Everyone pays for this through taxes, whether they use the service or not.
Having a copy is just a different way of getting the same finances but showing the customer part of the costs and encouraging people to try to minimize their health costs.
 
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D.P. You do have a point there, people really don't understand how expensive it is, when my father was in ICU he was racking in 7k a day and he was in there a long time. It's not a cheap thing and for that I do salute the NHS. They annoy me sometimes but this country would be nowhere without them.
 
I got charged £257 for the Ambulance to the Hospital after deciding to see how much I could wrap my car around a tree...
 
D.P. said:
There is no charge but it would be nice if there was some co-pay and clients made aware of the true costs. This is one of the issues with the NHs, people are oblivious to the costs so don't appreciate it and tend to abuse the service. If people had to pay say 25% of the costs up to a maximum of say £2000 per year then they might respect the service more (people at low incomes could have lower max deductible, e.g. That disappear to nearly nothing at min wage and nothing below that).

Before people say that this is crazy. The NHS isn't free like so many people are mistaken in believing because they aren't billed. The NHS is very expensive, getting treatment costs a lot of money. Everyone pays for this through taxes, whether they use the service or not.
Having a copy is just a different way of getting the same finances but showing the customer part of the costs and encouraging people to try to minimize their health costs.
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considering many men already dont go in for treatment/checkups they should have i dont think this is a great idea. i dont think ive even seen a dr for well over a year.

if they want to charge me i will be expecting a nice reduction in my NI since im certainly not getting value for money at the moment. but i dont mind NI as im sure one day i will need their help.

i could maybe go for the idea of hypochondriacs being forced to pay. and idiots who go to the drs with a cold etc. i think people who do dangerous activities could also maybe have some form of insurance for the costs. quite annoying as a smoker im taxed to **** for any problems i might have yet idiots crashing trials bikes etc arent charged extra.

they are mulling over charging us to see a Dr now. of course privatising always works well for everyone. look at how energy and train prices etc have plummeted since they were privatised :rolleyes:
 
I hope I don't get an invoice for my recent heart attack!!!

I believe Cardiac MRI scans cost a fair bit......


If I did get an invoice, I imagine the total would soon give me another! :D
 
Have had a hernia op done about 10 yrs ago on the NHS and never got charged for anything including the take home meds.

Just this past Sat, i had to go into hospital as a day case to get some injections done in my left foot as its been giving me a lot of pain whilst walking. It was done on the NHS but i was booked into the local private hospital but again no bill for my treatment.
 
This thread was fuelled by a previous EHIC claim where i got treatment in Sweden.

£20 to see a doctor/GP each time.. (Gulp) Caps out at £110 per year so after 5ish trips you get it FREE Bonus illness diagnosis!!!!!!
£14 to see a "Nurse" instead of the Doc.
£10 a night to stay on a hospital ward.

I don't think that is unreasonable ?? I've been to a UK doc once in 13 years... 5 x a year seems reasonable if you are "properly"ill im sure there are more concessions.
 
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i wonder if they will start charging fatties soon? after all us smokers cost them a lot less and we pay a shedload in tax for any possible future NHS care.
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please dont go retard on this thread keep the fat crap to the weekly fat thread. :p
 
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