NHS registration and getting crucial medications
May 7th 2018, 4:43 pm
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Re: NHS registration and getting crucial medications
If he is able to show that he has been being prescribed the meds then they SHOULD just do a repeat, and perhaps refer him to a specialist as well, if fact they should do that.
May 7th 2018, 5:05 pm
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Re: NHS registration and getting crucial medications
When I returned from the USA I registered for my new NHS number and also booked an appointment with a GP which took a few days, then simply handed over my prescription bottle of tablets and explained what they had been prescribed for by the specialist I had been seeing. The GP said that was exactly what was prescribed in the NHS, wrote a prescription there and then, no need to see a specialist immediately. The NHS website given above is a good resource and I just now searched for my condition, and the drug to treat it is listed.
May 7th 2018, 5:19 pm
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Re: NHS registration and getting crucial medications
When I returned from the USA I registered for my new NHS number and also booked an appointment with a GP which took a few days, then simply handed over my prescription bottle of tablets and explained what they had been prescribed for by the specialist I had been seeing. The GP said that was exactly what was prescribed in the NHS, wrote a prescription there and then, no need to see a specialist immediately. The NHS website given above is a good resource and I just now searched for my condition, and the drug to treat it is listed.
Great, thanks, I will check in more detail there when home from work but it looks like his meds are on the official list.
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May 7th 2018, 6:32 pm
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Re: NHS registration and getting crucial medications
May 7th 2018, 10:34 pm
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Re: NHS registration and getting crucial medications
Ask for a copy of your records and take them along to the surgery and see if they will take them.
May 8th 2018, 4:00 am
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Re: NHS registration and getting crucial medications
When my daughter moved back last June, she signed on to a GP and explained about the Epilepsy, showed the doc the very basic letter from her Neurologist here and the GP happily provided her with scripts for her meds and has done ever since. Maybe it's just her mother concerned that she's not seeing a Neurologist there and no one has suggested she should???? 
May 8th 2018, 10:45 am
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Re: NHS registration and getting crucial medications
When my daughter moved back last June, she signed on to a GP and explained about the Epilepsy, showed the doc the very basic letter from her Neurologist here and the GP happily provided her with scripts for her meds and has done ever since. Maybe it's just her mother concerned that she's not seeing a Neurologist there and no one has suggested she should????
May 9th 2018, 5:55 pm
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I don't know what to think any more. After years of the over-scanning, over-testing, over-medicating and definitely overcharging medical culture here I don't even know what's the right approach. I think the UK is more "if you haven't currently got any/new symptoms, then just leave it alone", but I can't be sure at all.
May 9th 2018, 6:27 pm
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I don't know what to think any more. After years of the over-scanning, over-testing, over-medicating and definitely overcharging medical culture here I don't even know what's the right approach. I think the UK is more "if you haven't currently got any/new symptoms, then just leave it alone", but I can't be sure at all.
May 9th 2018, 7:02 pm
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May 9th 2018, 7:10 pm
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Re: NHS registration and getting crucial medications
I don't know what to think any more. After years of the over-scanning, over-testing, over-medicating and definitely overcharging medical culture here I don't even know what's the right approach. I think the UK is more "if you haven't currently got any/new symptoms, then just leave it alone", but I can't be sure at all.
It's true that GPs in the UK are under more pressure than those in the US. But that pressure doesn't stop them from caring about their patients' well being, and in a situation such as your husband's there's no way his GP would just dismiss his need for a vital medication.
May 9th 2018, 7:14 pm
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Re: NHS registration and getting crucial medications
In the two and a half years I've been here on a spouse visa I've been sent three screening appointments, one for breast cancer, one for colon cancer and one for a pap smear. Although I hadn't requested any of those appointments they were all welcomed and followed up.
I still find myself automatically reaching for my purse when I leave a GP or consultant appointment!
Last edited by spouse of scouse; May 9th 2018 at 7:16 pm.