AVB Posted January 2, 2016 Report Share Posted January 2, 2016 I had to visit a NHS Walk-in centre today. Whilst there a man came in and said he needed a repeat prescription for Paracetamol. The receptionist mentioned that there was a two hour wait and that he could buy them in Tesco for 29p. He said he would wait. Two hours to save 29p! And what would it have cost the NHS to process that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted January 2, 2016 Report Share Posted January 2, 2016 Blimey, he really didn't think that through did he! I hope your visit was not too serious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest cookoff013 Posted January 2, 2016 Report Share Posted January 2, 2016 £8.20 per item? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felly100 Posted January 2, 2016 Report Share Posted January 2, 2016 £80 million a year it costs us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_b_wales Posted January 2, 2016 Report Share Posted January 2, 2016 And he probably was prescribed a box of 100. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panoma1 Posted January 2, 2016 Report Share Posted January 2, 2016 £8.20 per item? Bet he ticked the exempt from payment box on the script? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddy Galore! Posted January 2, 2016 Report Share Posted January 2, 2016 mind you, I used to get antihistamine tablets on scrip, and since being on steroids for a while that damaged my stomach lining I get zantac on scrip too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EMT Posted January 2, 2016 Report Share Posted January 2, 2016 When I worked for the ambulance service some of the calls we attended on blue lights were for : The careers had put odd socks on the patient. The patient was bed bound and had dropped the TV remote. To close a window. Because a patient wanted a rest and there were no seats in the town centre. Because a patients soup was too hot. I could probably create a list of at least 50 similar calls and I know there are some other paramedics on this forum that could come up with 50 of their own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
figgy Posted January 2, 2016 Report Share Posted January 2, 2016 If fools who made them calls got billed for wasting time and resources there would be a lot less of it. The question is did you change the odd socks pick up the remote, close the window and blow on the hot soup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobski Posted January 2, 2016 Report Share Posted January 2, 2016 On the other side of the coin I am on blood pressure tabs at £8.20 per month yet when I go to spain I can buy them over the counter for e1.20 that's less than a £, guess where I get them from now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyska Posted January 2, 2016 Report Share Posted January 2, 2016 (edited) On the other side of the coin I am on blood pressure tabs at £8.20 per month yet when I go to spain I can buy them over the counter for e1.20 that's less than a £, guess where I get them from now.Buy a season ticket! But to be fair, 8 quid a month? 2 quid a week? The prescription charges fuel the NHS. That's what paid for your primary diagnosis! Flip me. God help the poor lass on her knees the NHS, Edited January 2, 2016 by kyska Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man Posted January 2, 2016 Report Share Posted January 2, 2016 Just goes to show how any free service is abused to within an inch of it's life by some? Ignorant creatures with a level of greed that equals our so called masters? Just another side of the malaise that seems to be destroying the country? They had better make the most of it because very soon it will all be gone? Sold off to call me Dave's mates to enable them to suck the country dry? Make sure the special insurance policy is up to date? Ain't this place got a brilliant future? Very few seem to give a Fig? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyska Posted January 2, 2016 Report Share Posted January 2, 2016 Just goes to show how any free service is abused to within an inch of it's life by some? Ignorant creatures with a level of greed that equals our so called masters? Just another side of the malaise that seems to be destroying the country? They had better make the most of it because very soon it will all be gone? Sold off to call me Dave's mates to enable them to suck the country dry? Make sure the special insurance policy is up to date? Ain't this place got a brilliant future? Very few seem to give a Fig? It will be gone, and this country will be on its knees, I see it every day, the 'take, take, take' and complain. Food isn't in time, food isn't good enough, nurses are not seeing me (they're seeing to a really ill adult or child, if you are well enough to moan about your late lunch, STFU), Drs are late on duty, we'll blow me, they've got nothing else to do, must be playing cards. Just wait until you see the insurance bills once the NHS falls, your eyes will water, and no 'free' nurse to help us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaun4860 Posted January 2, 2016 Report Share Posted January 2, 2016 I get Paracetemol on prescription, Make of that what you will...... However..... If I run short I buy them until my prescription is ready Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruno22rf Posted January 2, 2016 Report Share Posted January 2, 2016 Well said kyska but there are 2 sides to every coin. Came out of Hospital about a week ago after yet another stay and I must say that your treatment, and possibly your life, can depend on the nurse who happens to be on duty at any given time-this is even more the case if you are elderly and unable to stand up for yourself. The treatment given to several elderly patients that I was unfortunate enough to witness over the last year was bordering on criminal neglect by SOME nurses. The treatment that I personally have experienced has, on occasion, brought me to tears and has made me far more reluctant to trust most nurses-they seem to think that they have the right to demand obedience because they have passed an exam-its often a particular race of individuals but I have no intention of inviting a racist call. Don't get me wrong though because I have also witnessed acts of bravery and total respect towards patients and I always make sure that I praise such devotion to duty-a tiny little female nurse standing between an irate mental patient with half a drip stand in his hand and an elderly man fast asleep but about to be beaten, I asked her afterwards if she was scared and she simply said that the sleeping man was her responsibility and that she would never have backed away. That's the kind of nurse you can , and indeed should, find in a hospital but they are not always easy to find. As a parting comment I should perhaps add that I have spent a great deal of time in various Hospitals over the last 40 years and, in my opinion, standards have dropped quite considerably but thank god there's enough good nurses out there at the moment to make a difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandalf Posted January 2, 2016 Report Share Posted January 2, 2016 29p packet of pills is OK but the NHS refuses to pay for the immunoglobulin treatment that my wife desperately needs. Yes it is expensive but she stands no chance of any return to normal type life without it. Her condition is not deemed life threatening so she can't have it. She gets no life at all - trapped between a bed and a chair - and I have to ensure someone is with her 24/7. (So neither of us gets a life). I'm to 'rich' and to old for carers to be paid so it's just down to us. The NHS are a ***** joke and a bad one at that. They have totally lost the plot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digger Posted January 2, 2016 Report Share Posted January 2, 2016 I was in A and E at 5.00 pm on Christmas day as my three year old decided putting a small toy up her nose ten minutes before Xmas dinner.Spoke to a friend of mine who is a nurse and she said head straight to hospital as it may have entered her lung. The paediatric unit at St Georges Tooting ( where they film 24 hours in A and E ) were outstanding in every way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Geordie Posted January 2, 2016 Report Share Posted January 2, 2016 (edited) To buy 500 paracetamol at the rate for 16 being 30p or there about, would cost you a little over £12 so prescription is cheaper in the long run if you pay for them! Add to that, you cant buy 500 in one go over the counter! Edited January 2, 2016 by Lord Geordie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyska Posted January 2, 2016 Report Share Posted January 2, 2016 Add to that, you cant buy 500 in one go over the counter! In one shop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fern01 Posted January 2, 2016 Report Share Posted January 2, 2016 When I worked for the ambulance service some of the calls we attended on blue lights were for : The careers had put odd socks on the patient. The patient was bed bound and had dropped the TV remote. To close a window. Because a patient wanted a rest and there were no seats in the town centre. Because a patients soup was too hot. I could probably create a list of at least 50 similar calls and I know there are some other paramedics on this forum that could come up with 50 of their own. My son works for the ambulance service and a large percentage of their calls are to self inflicted alcohol and drug abusers together with people who think an ambulance service is a free taxi service when they have spent all their money on those two items. Whilst dealing with them the genuine patients desperately in need of their help have to wait. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keg Posted January 2, 2016 Report Share Posted January 2, 2016 Buy a season ticket! But to be fair, 8 quid a month? 2 quid a week? The prescription charges fuel the NHS. That's what paid for your primary diagnosis! Flip me. God help the poor lass on her knees the NHS, I disagree, it has it's problems but far from on its knees in Leeds and that is based on personal experience . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welsh1 Posted January 3, 2016 Report Share Posted January 3, 2016 I get Paracetemol on prescription, Make of that what you will...... However..... If I run short I buy them until my prescription is ready +1 and my prescriptions are free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keg Posted January 3, 2016 Report Share Posted January 3, 2016 29p packet of pills is OK but the NHS refuses to pay for the immunoglobulin treatment that my wife desperately needs. Yes it is expensive but she stands no chance of any return to normal type life without it. Her condition is not deemed life threatening so she can't have it. She gets no life at all - trapped between a bed and a chair - and I have to ensure someone is with her 24/7. (So neither of us gets a life). I'm to 'rich' and to old for carers to be paid so it's just down to us. The NHS are a ***** joke and a bad one at that. They have totally lost the plot. Can fully sympathise Grandalf and your comment highlights the biggest issue. Everything is a priority to someone. Heart, Cancer, Children, kidney. Who gets the most funding. Not a choice i would like to make and yet someone has to. Like the welfare state, it was never designed to do what it is doing. Take IVF, another pull on funding. Should it be funded or paid for by the couple themselves. Is it a disease? We paid for 2 cylcles and in my opinion should not be paid for by the NHS but see how complicated it gets? Fern01 highlights another issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medic1281 Posted January 3, 2016 Report Share Posted January 3, 2016 My son works for the ambulance service and a large percentage of their calls are to self inflicted alcohol and drug abusers together with people who think an ambulance service is a free taxi service when they have spent all their money on those two items. Whilst dealing with them the genuine patients desperately in need of their help have to wait. All very true! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kent Posted January 3, 2016 Report Share Posted January 3, 2016 I have to call on the ambulance service a fair amount for my daughter who has very unstable asthma. You can tell when it's a drinking night as they are keener to stay on the job than taxi drunks about The Americans have the solution the bar owner gets charged for over serving they can also be sued by the drunk themselves if they hurt themselves as a result Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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