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Answers: In the UK the NHS provides health care for free regardless of cost, with regard to you been ill, but as for medication a government body decide what medication can be issued on the NHS, because some of the new cancer drugs aren't available yet. But you can pay private if you want, but I can't see how you can spawn a profit on health care.
Any company has a duty to its share holder first and the tolerant second, were the NHS only has to look after the merciful.
My experience with the NHS has always be a good one, clean hospitals and a reasonable waiting index. But life threatening accidences/illness are dealt with straight away, final time I was in A & E it was full of family that didn’t need to be there, if these people have to pay for their health care they wouldn’t own shown up, they would possibly buy there own stuff from a pharmacy.
The NHS is paid for by National Insurance contributions from employer and employees.Generally you get very angelic quick treatment for something urgent like cancer. For something non-urgent you may have to skulk a few months on a waiting list. The private clinics are very expensive & usually paid for by form insurance, but these enable you to get fast treatment for something non-urgent + a room to yourself & better hospital food. Source(s): I hold had good fast treatment for colon cancer on the NHS.
NHS is fantastic.and yes here are loads of private clinics for the rich buggers
The National Health Service is free to all UK citizens and commonwealth citizens too I believe. There are other option for medical care, such as Bupa or any other privately owned medical organisations. To see your local GP for a minor diagnosis or advice is also free on the NHS.
ver, prescription charges for medicines are a levy imposed by the NHS which is currently charged at roughly lb8 per perscription. This is only in effect in England as Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland own abolished charging for prescriptions. Speculation has it that England may follow suite soon.
Hope that clarified your question.
This is my experience of the NHS. I pay lb109 per month in National Insurance for this and have no choice more or less paying it!
I can't afford private fees as well, but yes there are private hospitals for those who can afford them.
Like all health services, near is good and bad about the NHS. Recently in attendance have been three major scandal concerning appalling treatment at Mid-Staffs, Kent and Birmingham hospitals, with patients pressing for a public enquiry.
ver, the other side is there is some fantastic effort provided by the NHS - so it is slightly the luck of the draw which you get.
However it is a myth that the service is free - last month Lord Darzi of Dept. Health said it is costing us lb119 BILLION a year - which comes out of our taxes.
Sadly, some NHS treatment is so bad that at a recent talk in London's City Hall, out of 30 people from working class backgrounds, 21 have had private cancer treatment Their families had said they be taking out mortgages or bank loans to pay for Mum or Dad to have better treatment.
One of the previous Answers said they have been in A & E where some folks perhaps hadn't paid into the system. This might end after the subsequent election, as privately the Dept. Health is looking at ways of making health taxes and payment fairer. This will be anathema to copious, but it works - and gives better cancer survival rates - in places like France.
te R
The original aim of the NHS was free form care from the cradle to the grave.
It's been run down by successive governments, and the parts of it that are very soon privatised (in that they are done by private companies who bid for the franchise), such as catering and cleaning, have seriously deteriorated as profit has become a motive.
Yes you can get private health safekeeping if you are able to pay for it, but often it is no better than you would receive on the NHS. For example, have I opted to go private for my cancer surgery I would have have the same top surgeon as I had on the NHS.
I had the best surgery possible and I couldn't hold bought better nursing care.
staff are overworked of course; the nurses were doing 12 hour shifts but still their compassionate and professionalism was evident.
I had my chemo and radiotherapy within the same hospital and the same applied - I never encountered anything but courtesy and professionalism.
Even if you've never worked and so never remunerated NI you're entitled to free health care. And when you have, for example, cancer treatment you receive more than you could ever hold paid for in a lifetime of paying NI.
I read some strange ideas from some Americans on this board roughly speaking the NHS - some persist in believing there are long wait for cancer care, and that people die while waiting. In fact cancer is treated as an emergency and treatment swiftly follows diagnosis. I be diagnosed on 2nd December; surgery on 5th January, chemo started shortly afterwards and radiotherapy straight after that. And it didn't cost me a penny.
There can be nothing more frightening than not being able to afford treatment when you're seriously not at your best; often on this board there are questions from peoplefrom the US who enjoy inadequate insurance and are worried sick about paying unexpected medical bills. We never enjoy to worry about that, ever. There's no leaving hospital hours after surgery because you can't afford to stay any longer, we stay as long as we have need of.
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Thanks is Advance.
Answers: In the UK the NHS provides health care for free regardless of cost, with regard to you been ill, but as for medication a government body decide what medication can be issued on the NHS, because some of the new cancer drugs aren't available yet. But you can pay private if you want, but I can't see how you can spawn a profit on health care.
Any company has a duty to its share holder first and the tolerant second, were the NHS only has to look after the merciful.
My experience with the NHS has always be a good one, clean hospitals and a reasonable waiting index. But life threatening accidences/illness are dealt with straight away, final time I was in A & E it was full of family that didn’t need to be there, if these people have to pay for their health care they wouldn’t own shown up, they would possibly buy there own stuff from a pharmacy.
The NHS is paid for by National Insurance contributions from employer and employees.Generally you get very angelic quick treatment for something urgent like cancer. For something non-urgent you may have to skulk a few months on a waiting list. The private clinics are very expensive & usually paid for by form insurance, but these enable you to get fast treatment for something non-urgent + a room to yourself & better hospital food. Source(s): I hold had good fast treatment for colon cancer on the NHS.
NHS is fantastic.and yes here are loads of private clinics for the rich buggers
The National Health Service is free to all UK citizens and commonwealth citizens too I believe. There are other option for medical care, such as Bupa or any other privately owned medical organisations. To see your local GP for a minor diagnosis or advice is also free on the NHS.
ver, prescription charges for medicines are a levy imposed by the NHS which is currently charged at roughly lb8 per perscription. This is only in effect in England as Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland own abolished charging for prescriptions. Speculation has it that England may follow suite soon.
Hope that clarified your question.
This is my experience of the NHS. I pay lb109 per month in National Insurance for this and have no choice more or less paying it!
I can't afford private fees as well, but yes there are private hospitals for those who can afford them.
Like all health services, near is good and bad about the NHS. Recently in attendance have been three major scandal concerning appalling treatment at Mid-Staffs, Kent and Birmingham hospitals, with patients pressing for a public enquiry.
ver, the other side is there is some fantastic effort provided by the NHS - so it is slightly the luck of the draw which you get.
However it is a myth that the service is free - last month Lord Darzi of Dept. Health said it is costing us lb119 BILLION a year - which comes out of our taxes.
Sadly, some NHS treatment is so bad that at a recent talk in London's City Hall, out of 30 people from working class backgrounds, 21 have had private cancer treatment Their families had said they be taking out mortgages or bank loans to pay for Mum or Dad to have better treatment.
One of the previous Answers said they have been in A & E where some folks perhaps hadn't paid into the system. This might end after the subsequent election, as privately the Dept. Health is looking at ways of making health taxes and payment fairer. This will be anathema to copious, but it works - and gives better cancer survival rates - in places like France.
te R
The original aim of the NHS was free form care from the cradle to the grave.
It's been run down by successive governments, and the parts of it that are very soon privatised (in that they are done by private companies who bid for the franchise), such as catering and cleaning, have seriously deteriorated as profit has become a motive.
Yes you can get private health safekeeping if you are able to pay for it, but often it is no better than you would receive on the NHS. For example, have I opted to go private for my cancer surgery I would have have the same top surgeon as I had on the NHS.
I had the best surgery possible and I couldn't hold bought better nursing care.
staff are overworked of course; the nurses were doing 12 hour shifts but still their compassionate and professionalism was evident.
I had my chemo and radiotherapy within the same hospital and the same applied - I never encountered anything but courtesy and professionalism.
Even if you've never worked and so never remunerated NI you're entitled to free health care. And when you have, for example, cancer treatment you receive more than you could ever hold paid for in a lifetime of paying NI.
I read some strange ideas from some Americans on this board roughly speaking the NHS - some persist in believing there are long wait for cancer care, and that people die while waiting. In fact cancer is treated as an emergency and treatment swiftly follows diagnosis. I be diagnosed on 2nd December; surgery on 5th January, chemo started shortly afterwards and radiotherapy straight after that. And it didn't cost me a penny.
There can be nothing more frightening than not being able to afford treatment when you're seriously not at your best; often on this board there are questions from peoplefrom the US who enjoy inadequate insurance and are worried sick about paying unexpected medical bills. We never enjoy to worry about that, ever. There's no leaving hospital hours after surgery because you can't afford to stay any longer, we stay as long as we have need of.
I'm a fan.
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