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The national health disservice
Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 4:28 pm
by flatlander
More money
Better buildings
Sharper suits
Shit health care getting shittier
Why might that be d"ya think
Managers
National malaise
Shit patients
Just wondering like as I take a break from calling the surgery to go down to request the repeat prescription in person so that I can come back in 48 hours to collect the prescription.
Fek it give the money to poorer countries at least it might get spent on medicine
Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 4:48 pm
by D-Rider
You forgot the ubiquitous hospital parking charges for which you require a second mortgage .........
Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 5:33 pm
by flatlander
quite right and the recommendation that repeat prescriptions are reduced from 56 to 28 days so you can pay twice for the same medication.
our surgery opens at 8 no one can get through so you turn up at 8 get the appointment and come back after 10 sometime except that now they are not going to open the doors till 830
I just exaggerate and tell them I have been in contact with people from the wetlands and may have some terrible lurgy
Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 5:44 pm
by MartDude
flatlander wrote: the recommendation that repeat prescriptions are reduced from 56 to 28 days so you can pay twice for the same medication.
Prescription pre-payment certificate?
It's saving me about £400.00 a year
Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 5:57 pm
by Aladinsaneuk
So write and complain to your mp
Send it to parliament address - it has to be responded too....
Repeat scripts - I do mine online.... May just be a wetlands thing....
As for hospital parking - yep, robbing bastards.... So do a formal request under the public disclosure stuff to ensure that all revenue raised is 100% spent on direct patient care....
Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 6:07 pm
by MartDude
D-Rider wrote:You forgot the ubiquitous hospital parking charges for which you require a second mortgage .........
Use the bike; there's usually somewhere to park where you won't incur a parking charge.
Our nearest hospital, Kidderminster, is quite bike-friendly - some thoughtful person put up a notice in the area used by most for bike parking, warning users of soft tarmac in hot weather
Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 6:19 pm
by Dalemac
It'l all be privatised soon. Then companies will be profiting from the sick, elderly and death.
The whole idea is morbid in my opinion.
Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 7:28 pm
by fatboy
Flatlander, MartDude has a point there, pre payment thingy can save you a fair few beer tokens, pay for 3,6 or 12 months,well worth looking into.
How are the injuries healing ?
Hope you can wipe your own butt these days
Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 7:59 pm
by D-Rider
MartDude wrote:D-Rider wrote:You forgot the ubiquitous hospital parking charges for which you require a second mortgage .........
Use the bike; there's usually somewhere to park where you won't incur a parking charge.
.... which I do if it's just me visiting - but when Joy is visiting for anything other than her treatment or when I'm taking my mum to visit my dad, it's not really a viable option