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Worth complaining or should I not expect anything more from the NHS?
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Posted 1 year ago #
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Nice one.
It'll probably still take a while for the results to make it back to the Doc, but I'm interested to know what the result is now. Maybe you can give us an update when you find out something?
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It'll probably still take a while for the results to make it back to the Doc
Yes you might have to wait a while to see your consultant again, but in our "Health Board" the scan results are available on the network pretty quickly (c48 hours). Your GP might be able to access these. So you could get the results by calling your surgery in a couple of days without waiting weeks to see your consultant. Of course your GP might not be able to interpret them!
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I had a similar experience with my knee.
A&E nurse (3 days after the initial crash it swelled up and locked and I couldn't move it). - no ligament damage, RICE, see GP in 2-4 weeks if no imporvements.
GP - RICE + NSAIDs, come back if no improvement
(back home for summer break from Uni, new GP's, lots off faffing, one useless physio, back to uni in september).
See GP, refered for physio again, saw a really good consultant physio, then fortnighltly appoitment with a good physio for almost 6 months. But all we could do is get it normal, i.e. I could fuction, but couldnt walk further than the bus stop, and excercise beyond swimming with a pull-bouy was impossible.
Refered to a consultant (I actualy tore the sack of fluid round the knee walking to his office!)
More x-rays.
Opperation scheduled to have a look.
Opperation.
Remove a chunk of inflamed tisue.
6 months later I was doing 100 mile sportives
3 years later I can ride pretty much as normal, it's not perfect but I can modulate the riding enough to keep it in check.
If it happened again, I'd pay the £90 see the consultant straight away, then he can either decide to opperate and you go on the NHS waiting list (or pay £3k and have it done pretty much there and then). Or you just go back into the NHS system with a note from the consultant saying you need XYZ treatment/tests. Thats what my neighbour did and he was back at work (manual work, not office work) in 6 months non the 18months it would have taken me.
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You had a thread about this the other week didnt you? Good luck for your diagnosis but i suspect you are looking at 3mths with your legs up with no sport. If its a tear then they havent got much choice but to recommend rest.
I got moved into advanced knee group at hospital today 3ths and 2weeks following a complete rupture of the patella tendon. I wouldnt wish you carrying on exercising etc and then snapping it. Believe me, your current situation would be a pleasure
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Errrrr I wonder how many foreign trained medics work in the NHS.
I suppose that's wrong too?Well what do you think ? Try and work out for yourself whether poaching trained medical staff from third world countries is acceptable......bearing in mind that it isn't rocket science, and we should be able to train our own doctors, nurses, radiologists, etc.
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So I pay my taxes, never missed a penny and decide to get private health care, how is it fair I get taxed again. If it was offered by your employer ernie I'm sure you'd turn it down hey??
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may i suggest you request a copy of your medical notes from the nhs, being able to sit and read them may give you some answers. my wife has just done this and you need to fill out a form get your gp to sign it then it takes about a month after to arrive and they charge you £17.
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how is it fair I get taxed again
not sure any tax is Fair in the sense you mean but itis a benefit in kind if your employer pays it? Effectively they pay it in lieu of wages so it is taxed as if it is earnings like say if they gave you a car.
If you pay the premiums yourself from wages it is not taxablePosted 1 year ago # -
So I pay my taxes, never missed a penny and decide to get private health care, how is it fair I get taxed again. If it was offered by your employer ernie I'm sure you'd turn it down hey??
I pay my taxes too, never bloody get ill, yet some of those really sick people who are too sick to work and pay taxes get loads of treatment, how is that fair?
And they spend all that money on neonatal intensive care for babies who've not done a stroke of work in their lives, how is that fair? Sheeesh!
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If it was offered by your employer ernie I'm sure you'd turn it down hey??
I can't see how that has anything to do with it. It is clearly neither fair nor right that healthcare should in anyway be dependent on ability to pay. If I was offered private healthcare by my employer it wouldn't suddenly become "acceptable".
I am entitled as anyone else to jump the queue for medical treatment if I have the means at my disposal. Why would you expect me to leave it to others ffs ?
It's still a shite state of affairs for an advanced society to allow, and encourage, that sought of crap to happen. And I would never agree that it is morally acceptable, whether or not I personally benefit from it.
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So you'd turn it down??
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So you'd turn it down??
My answer could not have been any clearer. Read it again, specially the second paragraph. If you still can't figure it out, then I fear you might never know.
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Could you just answer yes or no?? As you feared I'm struggling.
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By the same token wrightyson, if you had cancer or a heart attack, or something else that the private companies don't actually deal with in the UK, I suspect you might still be quite glad to fall back on the NHS.
Try not to feel too smug about your private health care. You haven't bought immortality, or even a guarantee of good health, just the chance to get a hernia or a prolapsed disk or something like that sorted out quickly so you can get back to work without your employers losing too much money!
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Oh **** off, why am I being smug! I've only ever "needed" the hospital once other than being born and they let me down badly!! Yes it was a knee injury where I couldn't move my leg and I went down, was just like the op diagnosed incorrectly and told that's all we can do till you get on the MRI which will be six weeks minimum!! I couldn't wait that time and went private, not through smugness, just through sheer I've got to get back to work or my family will suffer!!
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It's odd that most people who have a car, when told "it's your clutch, and you should change the flywheel too, that's going to be £1500" say "Oh well, can't do without the car" and cough up with hardly a grumble.
If it's a bit of their body however, it's "I'm not bloody paying, I'll put my life on hold for 8 months".
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can you clarify for me that you now understand why you pay tax on it [ it is a payment in kind] and you no longer feel aggrieved about paying tax on earnings.
Ernies [very honest] answer is yes i might but that would not make it rightPosted 1 year ago #
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