Why your taxes will rise sharply and your families standard of living will fall

[PurpleGorilla]

Hands up who knows their NHS number? Hands up who thinks they could remember their NHS number whilst being wheeled into A&E with blood pouring out of an open wound?

It was interesting when I went to a private hospital last year the first thing the receptionist asked was how I was paying. It just seemed so completely alien when you've grown up in a country with free healthcare. I kind of agree with the point, but it's not really fair on doctors and nurses, or receptionists to be the ones to have to tell dying people they're not going to get any help.

With better border controls via BREXIT this isn't an issue.

[FatLazyContractor]

Hands up who knows their NHS number? Hands up who thinks they could remember their NHS number whilst being wheeled into A&E with blood pouring out of an open wound?

It was interesting when I went to a private hospital last year the first thing the receptionist asked was how I was paying. It just seemed so completely alien when you've grown up in a country with free healthcare. I kind of agree with the point, but it's not really fair on doctors and nurses, or receptionists to be the ones to have to tell dying people they're not going to get any help.

What are those jobless thousands of managers for?

[FatLazyContractor]

With better border controls via BREXIT this isn't an issue.

Yes, I agree. We will have a whole new raft of issues.

[dogzilla]

NHS is a ******* shambles. As much as I like free healthcare, what we've got at the moment is crap.

3 weeks for a GP appointment and then have to wait hours to get seen. And when I do go there, it's literally full of immigrants who can't speak a word of English.

I don't bother any more. I go and pay £125 for a private walk-in clinic and then another £50 for the bloody prescription.

[Lockhouse]

NHS is a ******* shambles. As much as I like free healthcare, what we've got at the moment is crap.

3 weeks for a GP appointment and then have to wait hours to get seen. And when I do go there, it's literally full of immigrants who can't speak a word of English.

I don't bother any more. I go and pay £125 for a private walk-in clinic and then another £50 for the bloody prescription.

Mirrors my experience exactly. Even though I don't live in an area with a large immigrant population, the doctor's waiting room is like Mogadishu. Can't get an appointment for weeks and when I do I can only have one thing treated. If I want to mention anything else I have to book a double appointment.

I pay and go private opposite where I'm working, generally same day. Sorted.

[The_Equalizer]

Mirrors my experience exactly. Even though I don't live in an area with a large immigrant population.

The same for when both my kids were born. The quiet corner of the UK where I live isn't known for being diverse, but the maternity ward, on both occasions, certainly was.

[The Spartan]

Indeed they are.

However IVF does not cure the sick, as such it is a luxury the NHS cannot afford.

I think people should pay for IVF on your own coin.

How about bariatric surgery?

[vetran]

I don't know what all you Xenophobics are on about, its a fact NHS tourism costs £200 million that is all!!!!!!!! This is a carefully calculated value that we repeat every year it absolutely isn't a small figure we picked out of the air.

I would imagine its a calculation based on believed age & number of the migrants and comparing it with a similar population in a settled country ignoring the self selecting nature of the migrants with health problems, higher risk of contracting something on the way and the poorer health of the host countries.

So any suggestion you are the only one in the doctors surgery that speak English then its obvious you are just a bunch of racists.

Unfortunately while we feel we can play God it seems we don't actually know what we are doing.

Test tube babies could die sooner - Telegraph

[SimonMac]

Interesting info

NHS spending on the top three disease categories in England | The Nuffield Trust

Seems the NHS spends most on treating mental health

[d000hg]

'NHS spent £181,000 treating just one illegal immigrant' - Telegraph




And these are just the illegals...

How much do we spent per person we kill in foreign countries?