uk_grenada

When local and strategic health authorities were closed down, to re-enforce the client contractor split in the nhs, 99% of staff went to work for contractors, trusts running hospitals typically. The govt decided gp's should commission services but theyvare essentially amateurs so need professional buying support and people to prove how effectively money is spent, ie pencil pushers, moreclike very complex excel pushers. The average london borough runs at 250-350 million in commissioning a year, and about 50 people look after that. They hold the purse strings and together make big decisions on drug buying, strategies etc. i once spent almost a year negotiating in a committee for heart stents, sounds silly but we made the correct clinical decision to buy good ones [less money wasted on reoperating and more life for users] and saved a ton of money with the supplier. Buying things like 5 million doses of an innoculation can drop prices, a uk doc pays 10% of what an american pays for pneumovax vaccine [prevents pneumonia.]

Cynic

No surprise; CCG's are community based UK organisations that arrange/fund community Healthcare in the UK. Unfortunately, they won't be able to help you in Sweden.

SanDiegogirl

The EHIC is for short term travel and not for people residing in other EU countries. It specifically does not cover giving birth.

Apply for a free EHIC card - Healthcare abroad - NHS Choices

The S1 form is now primarily for pensioners and cross border workers.

Why can't you get health cover via your partner? I don't understand, since the health system in Sweden is paid for largely by tax payers, why, if you are working you say you are not covered by the health system.

Even when covered, Swedes have to pay some costs towards their health treatment (doctors visits etc).

Violetta

Hey,
I have exactly the same problem. I moved to Sweden 6 months ago (I live with my Swedish partner)and I can't get permission to stay, they keep asking about S1 form. You can find S1 form on internet but it doesn't seem to be the right thing. My situation is a little bit different. Originally I'm from Poland but I moved to England when I was 14. At first they asked me to bring Polish documents but I can't because I'm not insured in Poland anymore. I'm only 23 and I have a really hard time to deal with all these stuffs. I don't even know who should I ask for help anymore...

Annabel12

I'd suggest to get some tan and say you're from Syria in a bad English - this will sort all your problems out immediately ;D
On a serious note - this is getting sick. I moved about 3 yrs ago, nobody asked me of S1 and I got to dentist no probs with temporary personnummer (it wasn't emergency as well). But lately I waited 7 weeks for an appt with GP so it doesn't surprise me that they block access to healthcare...

scot47

Try these people
SOLVIT - welcome screen - European Commission

Blackladder

I just read in Sydsvenska Dagbladet that 64 per cent of immigrants were still without employment after TEN YEARS in the country. Strewth, why bother going there?Blackie

scot47

Arriving with few skills and inability to acquire Swedish ! What do you expect ?