The NHS

Hi Brian just had a look at the price of the NHS prescription and the price of the drug prescribed.Take Omerprazole ( have had these for reflux) cost to NHS £1.15 for 28 20mg capsules,cost to patient if paying for prescription £8.40 so that's where the expense comes in.I have been in a chemist when the pharmacist has advised a person with a prescription that the item was cheaper to buy off the shelf.Looked at a Indian website drugs on line the £1.15 item I mentioned is £1.48 per capsule and £44.46 for 30,certainly not cheap.
Regards.
Jim.B.

Hi Jim
I too are on Omeprazole, caused by the acid reflux since I had my Laryngoscopy* operation last year.
Take two a day plus a bottle of Gavescon Advantage after every meal, as I was developing a cancer of the larynx.
Cheers
Brian

A Nigerian woman who flew to the UK to give birth to twins left the NHS with an unpaid bill of almost £350,000.

The woman, who has not been identified, had a Caesarean section in 2015 at Luton and Dunstable University Hospital, and her twins then needed to be in an intensive care ward.

The hospital confirmed the treatment cost £348,683.

It said in a statement: "This patient was an overseas visitor and was referred to us by another hospital because of complications with her twin pregnancy.
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"As an NHS Trust we cannot refuse to treat a patient, wherever they are from, if there is a danger to life. In this case two unborn babies required immediate care

"They were delivered safely but spent two months in our neonatal intensive care and high dependency units. This is the reason for the high cost and we are currently pursuing the patient for payment."
Freedom of Information requests by the Daily Mail to 90 hospitals also revealed that 13,077 overseas patients were treated in the UK in 2015/16, including 3,066 mothers who flew in to have their babies
Imperial College in West London confirmed a debt of £319,895 for a woman who gave birth to triplets.

The hospital has also cared for a Nigerian woman with quads.


In December, Freedom of Information responses obtained by the Press Association revealed overseas patients have left the NHS with an unpaid bill of almost £30 million in just one year[/B].


Patients who were not entitled to free treatment on the health service owed £29,530,378 in 2015/16.


More than 120 NHS trusts were asked to provide details on overseas patients who were billed for NHS care and who were exempt from reciprocal arrangements with the UK.


Some 104 trusts across England responded, with the results suggesting the unpaid bill is rising year on year.

Of 92 trusts that were also able to give data for 2014/15, the outstanding debt in 2014/15 came to £15,907,018

under the visa system pregnant women cannot{or should not travel} to this country after so many months pregnant someone apart from the women made a few bob out of us? now as being born here are they allowed citizenship and a passport they are registered here born here or is some other law preventing this like it or not I bet the passports are well hidden in a safe place as regards the bill not much chance unless the family she was visiting gets presented with the bill? jp

those babies will be British Citizens, another racket.
Brian

brian plenty of American women used to do the same thing that is one of the pitfalls of the nhs heal take you to the door and away you go?? jp

Many years ago in the 50s and old girl friend of mine, Betty, married an American Airman at 16, and went to live in New Jersey.
She came home to her mothers and had three babies here, said it was cheaper than America.
Brian

see what I mean Brian how many more citizens have we got in other lands? jp

They will all have DUAL PASSPORTS,
That is another racket that should be abolished
How can you be a citizen of more than One Country? they should make up their minds then get out of the other one. It should be stopped.
It can be abused.
Brian

#89, Hi Brian, when the NHS was introduced some 70 years ago it was designed for this country's population and circumstances of the time and like any new born thing they knew it would develop, I think it's unlikely that anyone
would have had the foresight to imagine the population changes that would be inflicted on us or the international
scammers that rob us blind. I don't pretend to know the answers but I do think it's time to have a complete clear
out of the out of date parts of the rules and regulations and bring in new rules to combat the different abuses of the
the system including health tourist etc. Until about two years ago I retained my old NI number starting with ZS it's
been digitalised for the computer now and I've lost my identity I feel I'm looked on the same as someone who's just
come here but if it's progress, so be it, cheers. JC