One silver lining to Brexit - the NHS as it exists will probably disappear

[shaunbhoy]

All specialists, including private, need a GP referral.

Should keep yourself in decent nick like I do. All those years in the frontline keeping the russian bear firmly at bay have paid handsome dividends from a health perspective.

Hoo-Rah!!

[sasguru]

You can.

Not far from me there are two private GP practices. You pay to stay on their books yearly then pay per appointment.

Sounds good. So far my health has been good (touch wood) but I wouldn't mind removing myself as far as possible from the nanny state.
Where are they and how much do they cost?

[sasguru]

Should keep yourself in decent nick like I do. All those years in the frontline keeping the russian bear firmly at bay have paid handsome dividends from a health perspective.

Hoo-Rah!!

I thought you were a fat fooker ,by all accounts.
I'm fit as a fiddle so far (tennis, running and squash, although the latter is getting tougher as I age)

[northernladyuk]

But anyway back to the point of this thread. We're exiting the EU, so that's the past.
I suspect that the future of the NHS is not what many (especially the lower strata) will be happy with.
But for the well off, we can finally see a GO when we want rather than waiting for 3 weeks (as my current GP service does)

It would be great for IT contract opportunities.

[shaunbhoy]

I thought you were a fat fooker ,by all accounts.

Nah, those accounts have not been signed off for years. Racing snake me!!

[BlasterBates]

Yup. Believe me or not. It's up to you.

She goes to most sessions with an interpreter in tow.

If she worked with the elderly her caseload would have a different composition. But she works in earlier intervention with poor families.

So basically a district nurse, serving a community of several hundred from Romania and with the same budget as one elderly British patient on chemotherapy.

[AtW]

No, in the 52>48 actual fact universe.

So, if 52% vote to confiscate houses worth over £200k, and 48% against, then in your opinion that would give mandate to do so?

[tomtomagain]

It's possible if she works in an area with a low-wage high-immigrant population but to extrapolate that to the country as a whole is imbecilic in the extreme
Still it's what we've come to expect from the 52%.

Well. Firstly - As I have Stated on Numerous Occasions - I am one of the 48%.

Secondly I brought the whole subject up not to prove that all migrants are a burden ( they are not ) but as a counter to your simplistic world-view that migration has no negative impact on the NHS or on public services in general.

My wife, incidentally, voted Leave. But then she spends her days working hard to resolve the impact of unconstrained migration. Whilst you and I do not.

[SueEllen]

Sounds good. So far my health has been good (touch wood) but I wouldn't mind removing myself as far as possible from the nanny state.
Where are they and how much do they cost?

Google is your friend.

However if you don't live in, or a mile or so from a wealthy area you won't find one.

[tomtomagain]

So basically a district nurse, serving a community of several hundred from Romania and with the same budget as one elderly British patient on chemotherapy.

No. Health Visitor. Or Nanny-State as I like to call her.