Is This Right Or Wrong?

[webbo3]

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/calls-bri-end-harrowing-upfront-2923519

In my hospital when someone comes in for an emergency appointment they fill a triage form outwith their details, when they hand it back in we ask them two questions.
Have you been treated here before ? (it helps if they have notes)
Have you been living in the uk for the last 12 months(cif the answer is no they fill another form out and the overseas team will contact them and they may have to pay.
This isn't life saving but for emergency dental treatment.

This is exactly the same for expats who have been overseas for 12 months or more.

Contrary to popular belief the NHS in England is residency base and not contribution based.

[calmck]

Yes. I live in Portugal and have to pay a minimal fee to see a doctor at the local health centre. I also have a patient number to receive cheaper prescriptions. I do pay taxes etc.

[Baldric]

If they are not entitled to free treatment, then they pay for it, simples.

[Peter Pedant]

// Contrary to popular belief the NHS in England is residency base and not contribution based.//

erm if you are not resident then you do not contribute.....

if sqad becomes ill in Malaga and gets an airplane back to dear old blighty - is he chargeable or can he be treated here as of right?

I actually dont know the answer

[ummmm]

I'm on holiday at the moment. They treated me without asking any questions and presented us with a 600 Euro bill.

If they'd bothered to question me they'd have known I did not need to be put on a drip for low blood pressure!!

[ummmm]

He can be treated,pp, he spent his life working here. He could be treated regardless of that.

[webbo3]

you can still be a resident and not contribute.

[Peter Pedant]

// He could be treated regardless of that.//

yes no - the question was - does he have a RIGHT to be treated,
not ( will he be able to get one of his frenz to do the old one-two on the QT? the answer to that is of course Yes )

[ummmm]

Yes but if you claim benefits your stamp gets paid, or used to, I know that anyone in receipt of child benefit got their NI paid it they weren't working

[Peter Pedant]

// you can still be a resident and not contribute.//

blimey you would be pretty THIN at the end of the non contributory period - taxes are not hypothecated on principle
( in AB speak Road tax is not spent on roads)

[ummmm]

It's a silly question, peter! And now he's back in the I'm anyway.

[ummmm]

Sorry, my kindle messes with my posts.

[Peter Pedant]

// If they'd bothered to question me they'd have known I did not need to be put on a drip for low blood pressure!!//

welcome to a charging health care system where you get X because they can charge for X and not because you need X

but you knew that really didnt you?

[Peter Pedant]

// It's a silly question, peter!//
and my task for the week umm is that I will try only to ask questions that Umm doesnt think are silly

and in return umm - will you try your very best not to give silly answers?

[ummmm]

I don't give silly answers.

[Baldric]

;o)

[Sqad]

PP...why would anyone want to fly back to the UK for NHS treatment?
In my experience healthcare in Spain is as good as and in many cases, better than the NHS.
I am now in the UK. I receive NHS care free of charge and Mrs sqad has been hospitalised in the UK, free of charge. However both Mrs sqad and myself have had treatment in the UK since returning but paid privately rather than go on the NHS.

[ummmm]

Because health care isn't cheap

[New Judge]

",,welcome to a charging health care system where you get X because they can charge for X and not because you need X"

Meanwhile here in the non-charging health care system you don't get X because they cannot charge you for X even though you need X.

[Samuraisan]

I agree absolutely with Sqad. Why do the British think the NHS is the envy of the world ? Here in Spain the national health service is excellent, most of the doctors/nurses etc. are actually Spanish and the hospitals are clean and organized. We can always get an appointment on-line with our GP for the same or next day, fortunately we haven't needed emergency for years, so can't comment.

[bednobs]

You have to be resident here for a lawful and settled purpose to receive secondary care in the NHS. Emergency treatment is free.