Anyone NOT got private health insurance?

[stek]

Here in Ireland most people (ie all) have private health (Laya being one) despite having a sort of NHS (HSE).

So you get to pay PRSI (sort of NI), USC (tax charge to pay for 2008 crash I think) and private premiums. And 60 Euro per GP visit.

Everyone in the office here is gobsmacked cos I made all my GP appoinments back home over Xmas, three visits, cost - nowt. 180 Euro here...

Think there's a lesson to be learnt, the more people go private the less the gov. will do about public health, but they still keep the money. It's already a two-class system here, homeless, scummers, spongers and people from Tallaght go via HSE, anyone with a job has private so goes there.

[BrilloPad]

I wonder what Nye Bevin would think about the NHS now?

[NickFitz]

Though I thought you were treated at the monkey sanctuary?

Twycross Zoo is private

[stek]

I wonder what Nye Bevin would think about the NHS now?

It's 'Bevan' actually!

Maybe thinking of Ernest Bevin - the Bevin Boys?

Who was the one blown up at the Houses of Parliament by IRA car bomb?

[psychocandy]

It's 'Bevan' actually!

Maybe thinking of Ernest Bevin - the Bevin Boys?

Who was the one blown up at the Houses of Parliament by IRA car bomb?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airey_Neave

[Platypus]

Why do the Govt make private health insurance a BIK? Surely if they incentivised private healthcare - it would mean less strain (even if only very limited) on the NHS.

Same for private education. The government should be very thankful.

[Eirikur]

Daughter got referral last month from GP to see pediatrician in NHS hospital. Wait time 3 months, called private hospital, could have appointment next day.

[BrilloPad]

https://www.tes.com/news/school-news...alth-treatment

[SueEllen]

Daughter got referral last month from GP to see pediatrician in NHS hospital. Wait time 3 months, called private hospital, could have appointment next day.

How quick you get seen depends on what you have, what hospital you are referred to and how stretched the speciality you are seeing is.

Paediatrics is stretched. The people I know who work in it have lots of vacancies which the trusts cannot afford to fill so they are suppose to more appointments per day. It also doesn't help that the doctors tend to work part-time for a mixture of reasons.

[stek]

How quick you get seen depends on what you have, what hospital you are referred to and how stretched the speciality you are seeing is.

Paediatrics is stretched. The people I know who work in it have lots of vacancies which the trusts cannot afford to fill so they are suppose to more appointments per day. It also doesn't help that the doctors tend to work part-time for a mixture of reasons.

My surgery in UK has 11,000 patrons and had 5 docs, one is serious ill and two have left, so two docs for 11,000 folks. They say they've tried home and abroad but nowt.

Seems to run ok, I always get seen reasonably quickly...