BUPA

Biohazard said:
Anyone on here had any experience with BUPA?

How did you find the experience compaired with the NHS?

How much did your account end up?

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BUPA are fantastic compared to the NHS.

It can be a lot of money but it is well worth it.

My family have had some really bad experiences with the NHS so thats why we now go private.
 
I'm with bupa as are my family and I find the service MUCH better than NHS. I had various treatment including physio work for about 8 weeks and I was able to book appointments when it suited me and when I did come, I was seen to the exact time of the appointment, no waiting about.
 
I've been with them for about 6 years and they are fantastic. If you have any medical problems, you phone them up and see a specialist within a week, then start treatment normally straight after. I've had friends who've had the same treatment on the NHS (this was for surgery), and they've had to wait nearly 9 months.

I also had a problem with my knee, and the GP just kept fobbing me off & saying take Ibuprofen, but as soon as I told them I had BUPA, I got appointed to a physio straight away and saw one within a week!

I think it is well worth the money personally...
 
sounds good then. I really have come to HATE my NHS GP's, and NHS hospitals over the last 6 months.

Its a crying shame in order for you to be taking with any note of seriousness you have to go private.
 
Biohazard said:
sounds good then. I really have come to HATE my NHS GP's, and NHS hospitals over the last 6 months.

Its a crying shame in order for you to be taking with any note of seriousness you have to go private.
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It is indeed, and I guess that's one argument for privatising the NHS...
 
Samtheman1k said:
It is indeed, and I guess that's one argument for privatising the NHS...
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Before I would have went all working class on you and argued with you to the hilt, however now I feel the NHS is a monumental and criminal waste of time and money.
 
Remember though that BUPA don't do emergency medicine or pregnancy, going private is always going to be quicker for say hip replacements etc. as your paying for you OP and jump the queue.

For most things you will still have to visit your GP to get referred in the first place.

HEADRAT
 
Biohazard said:
Before I would have went all working class on you and argued with you to the hilt, however now I feel the NHS is a monumental and criminal waste of time and money.
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What I don't get is that I can get private cover that gives me everything the NHS does, except for A&E and GPs AFAIK (as I have never claimed SS), and I pay £100s a month for, but with BUPA, I pay the equivalent of a night on the beer a month for a service that really is incomparable! :eek:

Where is all the money going ffs!!!!
 
BUPA is good but don't think of Private Medical Insurance (PMI) as a panacea.

Whereas on the NHS you will get treated eventually there are restrictions on pretty much all PMI products as to what they will cover.

For instance if you have been having treatment for something on the NHS and you decide to get insurance to get an operation quicker you will be required to declare the treatment in your application form and it will likely be excluded. Even i you choose not to declare a history and onset report will be requested from your GP to determine the date the problem started.

The NHS is the only choice for chronic diseases and emergency tretament, but for most things in which a non-emergency operation is required PMI is light years ahead of the NHS in this country.
 
Jimmy Carr is a Tart.

If I were to be having/needing an operation and was told there was an 18mnth waiting list. I would seriously consider shelling a few grand on it.

The only way i can see myself in hospital is an accident so it will be A&E NHS anyway, so its down to them guys to save my life.

Where i live the NHS are just completeing a new hospital so im holding of injuring myself until its open. It looks very posh.
 
Used both nhs and bupa, im with bupa now along with my mum. Personally i find bupa so much better and quicker but yes it can be expensive but its definitely worth it over the NHS tbh.

The NHS is a complete and utter joke tbh, always has been and alwasy will be.
 
Spawn said:
The NHS is a complete and utter joke tbh, always has been and alwasy will be.
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I'm not sure I agree with you there, my little girl was taken into hospital when she was about 18 months as she stopped breathing an ambulance came in about 5 minutes and she was rushed into hospital. Over the next 3 or 4 days the care she got was incredible, lots of nurses and doctors in a high dependancy unit. She recovered fully and it never re-ocurred, the care we got was A1 and I don't think any amount of money could have made it better.

I friend of mine broke his back last week and he had surgery to fuse 3 vertebra together yesterday, again on the NHS. Don't get me wrong I'm sure there are waiting list but when it really counts and you need them the NHS is pretty damn good IMHO.

There are lots of things wrong with the NHS but emergency care isn't one of them, is it value for money, I suspect that will depend on whether you've ever needed their services. I would like to see more of the money we give go on nurses/doctors/hospitals than meaningless managers etc.

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Alwayz Dead said:
As with most other things you get what you pay for even for medical attention.
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But that simply isn't the case with the NHS, you can receive the best care medical science can provide and it will cost you £0, yes there are problems with resources in the NHS but the level of care you receive in my experience is very good.

HEADRAT
 
HEADRAT said:
But that simply isn't the case with the NHS, you can receive the best care medical science can provide and it will cost you £0
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Do you not pay NI?????

I guess it is more a question of value for money...if the private sector could do the same service for less, then I don't see the problem with privatising the NHS...
 
I was referred to BUPA Murryfield in Edinburgh by my GP last week, I now have an appointment with a consultant on Monday. So I am very happy :)

I agree with the usefulness of emergency care in the NHS and how effective it normally is other than 8-9 hour waiting times. Its pretty much every other service they provide that clearly is not beneficial to patients or cost effective to the shareholders, ie you and I.

I am not doing this through insurance, as I don’t have any medical insurance lol. So at least I do not have the worry of someone accepting my claim or not.
 
Samtheman1k said:
Do you not pay NI?????

I guess it is more a question of value for money...if the private sector could do the same service for less, then I don't see the problem with privatising the NHS...
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If you don't work, or earn les than £5k, you do not pay tax. But can still have access to the full range of NHS services
 
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