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Quote from: Shadyglade on October 14, 2018, 07:27:07 AMHow common PF.Common as in it happens frequently. Another NHS fiddle is people who sell up, go and live in, say, France or Spain but don't tell their GP here. They then get all their repeat prescriptions picked up here by a relative or by themselves when they visit.
How common PF.
Dr Meirion Thomas https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/10422924/Surgeon-faced-investigation-for-refusing-to-treat-health-tourist.htmlA reminder that YOUR operation could be delayed or cancelled if a health tourist is being treated. How anybody can excuse this is beyond me. We all live and work here and pay our taxes and NI so why should people from other countries think they can come here and take priority never having paid anything in this country.
Quote from: Pennyfarthing on October 15, 2018, 02:58:39 PMDr Meirion Thomas https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/10422924/Surgeon-faced-investigation-for-refusing-to-treat-health-tourist.htmlA reminder that YOUR operation could be delayed or cancelled if a health tourist is being treated. How anybody can excuse this is beyond me. We all live and work here and pay our taxes and NI so why should people from other countries think they can come here and take priority never having paid anything in this country.Hi PF, I am assuming this post is aimed at me and I find it verging on aggressive. If you can't have a discussion without becoming so why start the thread?I am NOT excusing anything. Naturally people should not cheat the system deliberately. However I see the main problem as being the system itself. The point of my post was to highlight the shambles of the prescription service so I don't follow your criticism.
We have an ageing population, and inadequate taxation and inadequate investment in the NHS. This is the problem not a minority of people who come to this country to take advantage of our free health-care system. Also who are we to condemn them all - we who by luck happen to have been born in this country? Hurdity x