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Forum: Moving back or to the UK

Dec 27th 2012, 11:30 am

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The Real NHS

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Posted By aries

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Ah, I think I shall first have to buy a few lottery tickets to be able to win. Winning the postcard lottery would be welcome, but I wouldn't mind a few hundred million from Europe. It is wonderful...

Forum: Moving back or to the UK

Dec 26th 2012, 4:52 pm

Replies: 725

The Real NHS

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Posted By aries

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It isn't much fun being part of the bad stuff either :(

Forum: Moving back or to the UK

Dec 24th 2012, 3:16 pm

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The Real NHS

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Yes, I will be putting in a complaint, there were too many unacceptable situations this past week. :thumbdown: My brother also advised me to complain, as did a local councillor I know who phoned me...

Forum: Moving back or to the UK

Dec 23rd 2012, 7:14 pm

Replies: 725

The Real NHS

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Another twist to this . . . circumstances became more bizarre, so it prompted me to phone my neighbour to collect me, and I was home by 9.45 pm. Then despite conflicting information by nurses,...

Forum: Moving back or to the UK

Dec 22nd 2012, 4:21 pm

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The Real NHS

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I've now been told that my discharge paperwork hasn't been put through, so I can stay another night and get the medications sorted tomorrow morning! I've never known such a thing, what happened to a...

Forum: Moving back or to the UK

Dec 22nd 2012, 3:08 pm

Replies: 725

The Real NHS

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Posted By aries

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After waiting an hour for the nurse to come back to me, she has now said the pharmacy is closed!!

Forum: Moving back or to the UK

Dec 22nd 2012, 2:47 pm

Replies: 725

The Real NHS

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Posted By aries

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I am being discharged from hospital to-day, but an hour before someone is collecting me, I checked the zip bag my own medications came in (and which were used by the hospital), and found that the bag...

Forum: Moving back or to the UK

Dec 20th 2012, 2:53 pm

Replies: 725

The Real NHS

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Posted By aries

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Eventually my bedroom was painted, recarpeted and a new wardobe fitted, so hopefully damp doesn't come through the resurfaced floor and create more mould. It put me in hospital for a week in October....

Forum: Moving back or to the UK

Dec 19th 2012, 6:21 pm

Replies: 725

The Real NHS

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Checking my blood pressure is the bane of my life. Nurses generally check me during the night, on one night in Australia every 2 hours. Last night a nurse said she would come about 2.30 in the...

Forum: Moving back or to the UK

Dec 18th 2012, 11:24 pm

Replies: 725

The Real NHS

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Posted By aries

Re: The Real NHS

The NHS is a bit of a mixed bag, but there are too many issues I could relate since I returned 13 months ago, so I will just quote from recent times.

I'm writing this in a hospital bed, this being...

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